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military war simple
In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war. Carl von Clausewitz
military trying president
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power. Carl T. Rowan
military battle produce
Only great and general battles can produce great results
military war events
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
military war rain
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky. Charles Kingsley
military makeup differences
I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them. Charles Cumming
military technology competition
Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition. Denis Healey
military can-not
Success can not be administrated. Arleigh Burke
military war mean
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. Edmund Burke
enemy struggling win worst
A win is a win. We are struggling right now; our worst enemy is ourselves. Dawn Davis
enemy version warfare work
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
enemy might should
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted. Anthony Trollope
enemy oblivion
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion. Bruce Babbitt
enemy telling-the-truth cynicism
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. Elbert Hubbard
enemy sides treason
Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason...Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. Ann Coulter
enemy
Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'. Douglas MacArthur
enemy died warm
I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died. Clare Boothe Luce
enemy may who-we-are
Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.
troops our-troops ifs
You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you. Diane Ravitch