Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

Gun up,’ he whispered to Skosh. The word went back to invisible kids lying on the jungle floor. ‘Set it in here,’ Mellas whispered to Conman. ‘Put Vancouver with his machine gun one-eighty from it.”He...

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

My favorite show from the ’60s was ‘Combat.’ And maybe ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant awareness of one’s own inevitable death, total focus on the present moment, the...

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is...

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can...

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

War is unlike life. It’s a denial of everything you learn life is. And that’s why when you get finished with it, you see that if offers no lessons that can’t be bettered learned in...

I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.

I think war is a crime. If you don’t believe me, ask the infantry, ask the dead.

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness...

As a ground-combat force approaches the deadly zone and moves within range of the enemy’s rifles, mortars, and machine guns, the dynamics of war become more art than science. Intangibles such as training, confidence, leadership,...

…and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens...

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man’s struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what’s been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor...

There are two things a combat deployment offers which all of us strongly desire. The first, being purpose. Every morning we woke up and knew why we were there. It is immediate and unavoidable. Although,...

…the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.

…I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely...

When we deployed, in our heads, the towel we left hanging next to the shower to dry, would still be hanging there when we got back. Well, it won’t be. If it is, some important...

Caroline, beside herself, dragged me down to her, her breast was against mine, and by a circular movement seemed to caress it. The pretty strawberries which crowned her breasts, jealous at meeting others as fair,...

They Served…reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken…

For those regarded as warriors…When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be...

I miss it: the smell of sand, sweat, and gunpowder, rings of salt from dried sweat on my pants’ legs, and around my waist just under where my armor sits.

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the...

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik’s posse had destroyed the scenario’s promise of so many...

When you are in a combat situation, you mustn’t let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive...

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.

The inner fight never does any dead. (Le combat intérieur – Ne fait jamais de mort)

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.

Aw, you goddammed bastards! They’re shootin’ him while he’s down! Son of a bitch!”The ship stopped moving, and Alex said in a quiet voice, “Suck on this, asshole.”The ship vibrated for half a second, then...