How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They’s no war in the worth that’s worth fightin’ for. I don’t care where it is. They can’t tell me any different. Money, money is the thing that...

A quick check on the platoon showed everyone more or less enjoying the flight.”Whatever it is you’re eating, Ressk, swallow it before we land,” [said Staff Sergeant Kerr].”No problem, Staff.””More like whoever he’s eating,” Binti...

Well, Arminius, I can’t say you’re the most natural horseman I’ve ever seen.’Arminius sneered down at the men standing around him, then leaned out of the saddle and put a sausage sized finger in Double-Pay...

First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our...

How many troops do we embark?’ inquired Philip.’Two hundred and forty-five rank and file, and six officers. Poor fellows! There are but few of them will ever return; nay, more than one-half will not see...

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...

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

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed...

O burn the house! You’ve murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child – you must burn the house! You’re soldiers – you must do your duty …...

Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary

Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through the steam that rose from his pear-can coffee mug, handed Mellas the cup. Mellas gave a brief smile and...

That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never...

We were her soldiers. She was only six years older than some of us, and we respected her like we would a general in the Army.

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

People have been fighting and dying over religion for thousands of years. I could understand that fear. It creeps up on you a bit more when you’re alone in a foreign land. You certainly worry...

You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.

Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their...

I start thinking about what happened and then I start thinking about why I’m still here. It’s pointless. They say on TV that the soldiers want to be there? I can’t speak for every soldier,...

Johnny Got His Gun” and the shrill college cries of the Veterans of Future Wars drove the small-boy craving for war so far from our minds that when it finally happened, it seemed absolutely unbelievable....

I had to kneel to pull the blade out again, and stayed still afterwards. My heart was a bucking bull in my chest, my hands were slick with sweat, my face itched under drying blood....

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

Victory is a thing of the will.

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it’s time we value the hearts and minds of our own over distant Afghan tribes.

That’s a nice song,’ said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It’s an old soldiers’ song,’ he said. Really, sarge? But it’s about angels.’ Yes, thought Vimes,...

In the murk ahead of them a pair of blazing torches indicated the entrance to the forum, with a pair of sentries standing guard in front of the high archway. Before the tribune had any...

I missed the war and the freedom that came with it. When you are that close to death, you feel free. Every breath you take could be your last. So you inhale and savor each...

So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself.

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get...

The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers … I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).

Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.

You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.

I’m not a bad person.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.