#modern war

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#days #die #dog #dying #fitting

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. ↗

— James Dickey

#being #caused #destruction #human #human being

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#call #day #duty #i #modern

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#considerable #destruction #economic #fought #gain

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#himself #long #man #modern #modern war

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. ↗

— William Halsey

#anywhere #command #go #land #modern

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#die #dog #good #good reason #like

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#capitals #die #each #fighting #home

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. ↗

— Frank Whittle

#fight #good #modern #modern war #nation