“Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.” Quote by Claude Adrien Helvetius
“If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.” IfsMilitaryGunTriggersVeterans Day Author:James Baker
“The General Order is always: ......To manoeuver in a body and on the attack. ......To maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline. ......To keep the troops constantly at the ready. ......To employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go. ......To use the bayonet on every possible occasion. And to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.” UseBodyOrderEnemyMilitaryReadyDisciplineDestroyedOccasionsTroopsStrictNavyVigilanceBayonetsFollow UpMilitary GeneralMilitary Discipline Author:Lazare Carnot
“The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.” HumansRaceLibertyConditionsMilitaryDegreesHuman Race Author:Dante Alighieri
“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.” MenLongWarPoliticsMilitaryBattleTrainingAimAntiwarMilitary Training Author:Louis Simpson
“I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.” ChildrenYoungEffortAliveMilitaryHorrorMurderPhotographDestroyedBurningHatedBurnedContributingVietnameseCharadesNapalm Author:Ralph McGehee
“Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men... The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws.” PeopleMenHas BeensLawWealthCitiesEnemyLandMilitaryArmyInstitutionsSacredUnjustConquerorBaghdadLiberatorsConsonance Author:Frederick Stanley Maude
“The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.” MovingTeamMilitaryNeededGunHorseDifficultyHeavyStuckPortionsVehicleDragTroopsExhaustedMudStrainArtillerySlimeTractorsInfantryman Author:Gunther Blumentritt
“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.” IfsYearsTwoWarCertainFightingForceFiveBloodMilitaryVictoryYears AgoFlowDestructionTwentiesFranceGermanyFive YearsTwenty FiveBarbarism Author:Edouard Daladier
“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!” WorldStillsBehindsMilitarySixSittingArmyTwentiesDivisionStrongestAlliesConcreteSteelValiantSitting Still Author:J. F. C. Fuller