#military

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#cold #cold war #cultural #economic #emerging

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

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#air #armies #expression #fleets #good

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#become #ever #forget #great #leader

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#matter #men #military #serious #too

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #british #censorship #covering #fact

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#because #emphasis #gays #greater #hope

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn. ↗

— Mario Batali

#became #because #between #cook #could

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#after #all day #because #camp #day

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#arms #arms race #creation #down #dumping