In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.

Ah, bloody hell.

I start thinking about what happened and then I start thinking about why I’m still here. It’s pointless. They say on TV that the soldiers want to be there? I can’t speak for every soldier,...

It’s a lie. There isn’t safety in numbers. But there is safety in letters. There are only 26 letters, and yet they are more powerful than an army of infinite men. Show me a man...

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,’ said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

Our army is the people’s army that is under the absolute leadership of the party,

I think we called in the army without much delay but the area is remote and deployment takes time,

Look!” Hawkeye said. Duke looked where Hawkeye was pointing. In one corner, kneeling on the dirt floor with his elbows on his cot, a Bible in front of him, his lips moving slowly, and oblivious...

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t...

First reports from the army only mentioned a hand grenade explosion, but our monitors found while in the hospital that they had been shot behind the ears execution style.

This court finds that Col. Milam and Lt. Col. Elmore were acting in the scope of their duties” in 1991-1992 when Capt. Mackey alleged they harassed, intimidated and assaulted her. A legislative remedy was asked...

Thank you so very, very much. Look at us all. We’re an army.

It’s not an Iraqi army.

More proof that Lynn is still meant to continue with the government programme occurred during the winter of 2000, when she was sitting at a cafeteria table at the area college. It was later in...

Iraq’s Sunnis perceive the ‘national’ army and police force as a Shiite-Kurdish militia on steroids.

Poorly-planned development is marching like a marauding army through the Shenandoah Valley.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.

O Indra, confuse the army of the enemy; with the impact of the fire and the wind scatter them to either side!

The threat to this process doesn’t come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which are silenced.

The army is under orders to defend every place,

We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school. We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer....

The failure by the DRC government to create a professional, truly unified army is contributing in a large measure to the continuing instability in the east and needlessly putting civilian lives at risk.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

On Monday the 12th of the month no Israeli army soldier will remain in the boundaries of the Gaza Strip.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

At the same time as the minister’s vehicles were passing by, a group of Afghan National Army soldiers fired at each other over a dispute which they had from previous days,

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Maybe it’s time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I’m not sure how.

He is a true casualty of battle. There’s not a physical scar, but look at the man’s heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Inviting the invading army over for dinner, buffet style, is a bad idea. Especially when I just took a bath in the last of your mac and cheese.

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people...

Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.

But if you want him, you might have to fight for him.” I let my head fall to the tabletop. “For the love of all that is dead and Chinese, please, no more fighting. This...

Everyone’s a knucklehead at one point or another.

Joint operation of Afghan army, police and US-led coalition troops is going on in the area.

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about...

Borderline Personality Disorders” or mentally unbalanced. I attended many of these women, after they were discharged, or were wives of abusers, from xxx Air Force Base, when I was a psychotherapist working in the private...

At the very least we have one more. We left our canteen down in Mississippi for another Salvation Army group to use, and we’ll have to take another shift to get it back,

In terms of NEO (non-combatant evacuation operations), obviously if the Indonesian army performs its job then there shouldn’t be need for an evacuation,

When I was 18 years old I had to go in the Army-it was World War II-and I didn’t write very much at first, but when I was actually in combat in the Philippines I...

I was going to get drafted, but I didn’t really want to go into the Army.

We received the final permit from the [U.S. Army] Corps of Engineers today. The project is completely permitted.

I am not just unsatisfied, I am outraged by the course of reform in the army and the state of the military altogether,

Vous travaillez pour l’armee, madame?’ (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

this is an Israeli occupation army on our land, shooting our children, besieging our cities, using tanks, using fighter helicopters, using every brutal method in order to suppress … a civilian population on its own...