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Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries


Howard Tayler


#military #rules-to-live-by #military

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.


Desmond Tutu


#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.


John Abizaid


#build #civilian #control #done #got

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.


Louis de Bernieres


#broke #father #i #military #proud

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.


Benazir Bhutto


#asia #broad-based #called #government #me

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.


Steve Buyer


#demonstration #each #family #funeral #loved

A military man's courtship rites may not be poetic, but then, they're not cryptic, either. Even if he's bashful, when he fancies you, you know it, because you can't hide a lover's blush under the Army's signature high-and-tight haircut.


Lily Burana


#dating

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen. "Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?


Orson Scott Card


#military #death

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.


Sun Tzu


#empiricism #epistemology #military-philosophy #philosophy #war

What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?


Joe Abercrombie


#heroes #military #war #dreams






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