Say a king wishes to support a standing army of fifty thousand men. Under ancient or medieval conditions, feeding such a force was an enormous problem—unless they were on the march, one would need to...

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?””Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it,” the second man pointed out with a shrug

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

I’m concerned about how the mission has changed. When we sent in the 2,000-plus soldiers it was defined as a reconstruction mission, but they’re not reconstructing anymore.

She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.

It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.

Colonel Sanders as played by Hot Daddy Harrison Ford, cracking the whip on some island plantation, topping every native boy, stopping only long enough to enjoy a refreshing Coca Cola. Because every white guy is...

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They...

He had long been indifferent to which side won; he wished only that one or the other would do so decisively while he was still alive.

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale...

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together.Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There’s a difference.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they’ve never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

[Iain, addressing the Rangers at the end of the French & Indian war]”Never has the world see a war as this one, but you turned the tide of it, spillin’ your blood to keep frontier...

I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.

We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have...

Dear Beloved woman,Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me.And yet I remember it as if it were yesterday. I remember writing back and for the first time...

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.

I can see the little girl, the face of the little girl. And as much as people say that they don’t care about these people and all that, I don’t care about these people –...

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the...

We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun,...

Taking out a couple hundred soldiers here and a couple hundred soldiers there is not what we consider a withdrawal. We consider that to be theater.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

Those pictures were pictures of criminal acts that took place many years ago, rogue soldiers doing activity that wasn’t supported by their chain of command.

Qadir waded out of the water next, the chestnut mare calm under his touch, and Silus raised a disgusted eyebrow.‘There’s no justice. Not only the best horseman I’ve met in this whole bloody country, but...

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...

We’d like to think that it is not our fault that great men and women died fighting for the security of our nation and safety of our communities. But we know this not to be...

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations...

We’re going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue

No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?””Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation.””Poor lambs.””That’s not how I’d describe them.””I was thinking of animal sacrifice.””Ah. That’s...

She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely...

In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action maintain contact with the native and advise him by means of rifle butts...

Tenente colonnello Abbati: – Io mi difendo bevendo. Altrimenti, sarei già al manicomio. Contro le scelleratezze del mondo, un uomo onesto si difende bevendo. È da oltre un anno che io faccio la guerra, un...

Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’‘The madder? Yes, I do.’‘Enough of it for a century?’‘Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.’He twitched a smile then; I...

Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great...

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...

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

It was soldier’s went marching over the rocks,and still they came in watery flocks,because it was spring and the birds had to come,No doubt that soldier’s had to be marching,and that the drums had to...

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.

The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

I despised myself for my weakness. I may have dreamed all my youth of life as a horse-trader like my father; I may have railed against my conscription and loathed the legions on principle, but...

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn’t the training, nor the...

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.

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

What our soldiers saw as a result of being on the scene was a car coming forward at a high rate of speed, … That particular car looked like cars that we have seen in...