#casualties

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#general #major #takes #train

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#constitution #destruction #discarded #favor #form

Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#casualties #cost #could #faced #go

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. ↗

— David Petraeus

#casualties #comes #countries #denmark #find

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#cause #i #land #many #people

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#casualties #military #strategy #tactics #war

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗

— John Irving

#craft #novels #victims #writing #writing-craft

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#american #american lives #around #blamed #budgetary

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#either #greater #higher #length #likely

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling. ↗

— Allen West

#absolutely #administration #afghanistan #almost #appalling