#civilians

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#better #civilians #including #innocent #innocent civilians

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those. ↗

— David Spade

#civilians #hear #i #lot #relationships

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#american people #back #battling #behead #children

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#also #civilians #constitute #desert #except

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#bush #bush administration #civilians #criminal #frustrations

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. ↗

— Clare Short

#civilians #descending #gaza #into #iraq

The monstrous effects on Korean civilians of the methods of warfare adopted by the United Nations — the blanket fire bombing of North Korean cities, the destruction of dams and the resulting devastation of the food supply and an unremitting aerial bombardment more intensive than anything experienced during the Second World War. At one point the Americans gave up bombing targets in the North when their intelligence reported that there were no more buildings over one story high left standing in the entire country … the overall death toll was staggering: possibly as many as four million people. About three million were civilians (one out of every ten Koreans). Even to a world that had just begun to recover from the vast devastation of the Second World War, Korea was a man-made hell with a place among the most violent excesses of the 20th century. ↗

— Reg Whitaker

#korean-war #north-korea #death

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission. ↗

— John R. Allen

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Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#am #calling #ceasefire #civilians #concern

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear