All around them were the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. They lined the verges of the roads and floated in the canals, jammed together around the pillars of the bridges. In the trenches between the...

The man who did the shouting at the P.S.U.C. post down on our right was an artist at the job. Sometimes, instead of shouting revolutionary slogans he simply told the Facists how much better we...

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...

Who’s on board? Hey, who wants to come get blown up? Woohoo! Yeah, dude, I am ready to go fucking die! We are all going to fucking die!

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans in a single day. You pretend my country beats you because you are...

The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

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.

We came to realise – first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference – that intellect apparently wasn’t the most important thing…not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up...

Corbulo: a name to conjure with, a name to follow into battle, wherever he led; a name to have a man marching to the gates of Rome, crying Imperator! until the crowds and the idiot...

Gratitude…here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more…

As Lynn writes: “What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free...

Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

The Petriana’s tribune dismounted a dozen paces short of the gate and stalked up to the palisade wall with a grim smile, squinting up at Scaurus and his officers and then glancing back at the...

Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in war—peace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm,...

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn’t look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you’ve known them at all, they...

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome...

The camp was stormed about 4am this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers … I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).

The more primitive weapons teach what soldiers are supposed to do with the modern weapon.

‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

You are always sending us to our deaths. We’re soldiers, it is what we do.

I will soldier on.

We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone.

Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything coolly while his body raced wildly with passion and fear. He was frightened beyond any fear he had ever known....

Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional...

If you think your scars bother me, you’re wrong. In my eyes, you’re a hero. Your scars are just proof of that.

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a...

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

It’s a thin line between what we’re calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you’re supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how...

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods’ sake! It’s a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don’t put some effort into— What?

Bad war, good soldier.” Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

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...

Dude, don’t die out here.

What our soldiers on the scene saw was a car coming forward at a highway speed … (It) looked like cars that we have seen in the past used in suicide bombs, (and) with two...

Bein’ a soldier is not hard. If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it.

Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, and Tribune Licinius has ordered me to take the best...

War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead...

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.