It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but...

It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My fists hit the floor. My head hit the floor. My heart broke, hardened,...

Spare the rod and spoil the Memorial Day rotisserie.

I have this thought, it’s horrible, and it makes me sick, but it’s true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they’re going to name them for men and...

Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.

This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you’ve got.

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword … unless he’s a general.

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their people after a coup d’état, and bound them to their...

You should have long since gotten rid of military-industrial complexes.

…you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one’s verbal concatenation!

Never run after a man or a bus, there’s always another one in five minutes.

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Trying to drown me woman?”‘You can’t drown a SEAL,’ she said. ‘How embarrassing would that be?”God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don’t let me die in...

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

One of the characteristics of New Labour – and Miliband is irredeemably of that species – is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British...

All my life my dad felt this need to protect his kids from a war he fought, a war I believed could never reach out and touch us, could never hurt us—and yet he fed...

They were worried about keeping military families strong. They were worried about the stress and strain of prolonged military service and how it would affect our military readiness the next time a Hitler-wannabe reared his...

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

Military police is very timely for our army.

Military Wives—Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country.

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

The Japanese fought to win – it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether...

There’s no such thing as an ex-marine.

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...

With books, you can have as many boyfriends as you want, and no one gets upset, jealous or calls you out for cheating. It’s a win-win.

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...

Tell your wives and your older children to bring with them dish pans and cooking pots. Tell them to bring their stirring spoons and ladles. Tell them to carry a mop over their shoulders. We’re...

…the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security. These structures produce the same kind of authoritarian people, with a super defensive...

Everyday US Marines make possible the impossible and then go about their business like it’s just the way things are supposed to be.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines,...

The men and women who made up DoDDS Korea during the time I was there were an eclectic group to say the least, but as a group we were among the most talented, diverse, intelligent,...

The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.

And when you’re not partying in Vegas, what do you do?” she asked. “Prepare for your role as the next James Bond?””No, I don’t work alone.”She cocked her head as if trying to make sense...

Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens...

Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

I’ll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world.””Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?””We’ve got to have a still bigger navy because we’re...

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

honor” is a monument to the ashes of all those little pieces of themselves that they never got back.

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

The way you blunder from one catastrophe to the next, it’s a wonder the whole galaxy doesn’t hate you.The galaxy is a big place, General. You provincial military types don’t get far enough out to...

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn’t a realistic expectation.

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also...

I fell in love with a sniper – a man whose basic training instills psychopathic tendencies. I loved a professional dehumanizer. I loved a man who lived in a world where empathy was suicide. I...

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.