enemy?

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace…

For an instant he thought he grasped the truth of a terrifying world in which one could not escape horror, in which violence was eternal, the great and only verity, greater than the civilisations it...

Be where your enemy is not.

If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist...

On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war.” She stopped reading, to rest her eyes and because she...

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while...

It’s possible that the chief of trauma surgery has things backwards. It’s possible, even likely, that for all military medicine contributes to specialized skilks, it actually detracts from civilian medicine be diverting resources, research, and...

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...

He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence were fantastical creatures that had died long ago, resurrected only in games of...

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air...

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

If we think about it for a minute, if we had not done what was done in World War II, then we’d a be living in a much different world today, … I think can...

Wouldn’t want to miss a war, would I?

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Sic vis pacem para bellum – if you want peace, prepare for war.

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?” I ask.”Oh, not now. Now we’re in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated,” he says. “But collective thinking is usually...

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that...

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

Culling took place on a war footing.

Dulce Et Decorum EstBent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge....

We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those...

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 suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it’s wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.

The ‘pre-emption’ versus ‘prevention’ debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that...

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I’m not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

George Orwell famously described international sport as ‘war minus the shooting’. But for all Orwell’s greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to ‘murder minus the death’ or ‘life...

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 –...

You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

War…is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

The world understood and had observed, that the parties to the armed conflict at Gaza in 2014 transgressed the ken of human rights and those who understand the subject of legal violations have already deciphered...

Brave’ covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people’s lives – generals tend to go in for that sort – to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy – to the sort of thing...

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which...

I think a cool war helmet is painted with red and white concentric circles, exactly like a bull’s eye. But I’m not a fighter—I’m a lover. That’s why I’m joining the military. I figure after...

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.