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.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well – the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Yeah, I know they do, Evan.

In the absence of expert [senior military] advice, we have seen each successive administration fail in the business of strategy – yielding a United States twice as rich as the Soviet Union but much less...

In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One can see how this worked at its starkest in Xenophon’s Anabasis, which tells the story...

the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind.”45 What law has...

I think I would know.” And by the look on his face, I know he really does want to kiss me.

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world...

Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I...

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

Excited. In a good way. I’ve been training my whole life for this.

Well, the reports are correct that we’re conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

old” normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why...

Honestly, I had no idea how to respond. My senior year of college I’d taken a seminar titled Public Education: Situations and Strategies. I thought about emailing my professor, maybe suggest some new topics and...

…it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre…

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue – it is...

I’ve come to accept the voices in my head… I just wish they didn’t spit when they talk.

The only easy day was yesterday!

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

finishing the drill” in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Bir ordunun kıymeti, subay ve komuta heyetinin kıymetiyle ölçülür.

As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law enforcement, and heavy artillery.

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.

It feels like last week, but in fact we’re now closing in on five thousand days at war. I always picture Sami as a nine-year-old soccer stud … and yet there are soldiers in Afghanistan...

I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their students would be drafted and sent to war. I was curious because for...

Aim towards enemy.” – instructions on U.S. rocket launcher

Wrapping his arms around her waist, he kissed her cheek. She inhaled his masculine scent, he smelled of engine grease, citrus hand cleaner and man. She turned in his arms and laid her cheek over...

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.