#civilian

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets. ↗

— Lee Child

#civilian #completely #cope #dislocated #felt

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#civilians #commit #control #disarmament #ensure

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani government, which has no coherent policy to deal with the radicals, the Taliban have one to deal with Pakistan and its citizens. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#because #citizens #civilians #coherent #deal

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#going #i #killed #our #rather

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#authorization #bill #civilian #congress #defense

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#civilians #combat #get #healthy #healthy way

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#army #civilian #draft #everyone #life

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#battle #because #below #caught #civilians

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#civilians #could #extermination #justify #scale

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#aside #civilian #lives #living #men