“Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.” RealMovingGamesHurtBattleTrainingBasesIt Hurts Author:John Terry
“If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.” IfsFieldsBattleBasesBeachMarineCapturedPacificMarine CorpsCaribbeanPlaying FieldsWaterloo Author:Holland Smith
“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.” PeopleWayKindArtMadeMatterFilmDoubtObjectsMaterialsSceneBattleBasesCamerasNo Matter WhatArguingGenuineJournalismFilmmakerMovieAntiwarMotion PicturesStardom Author:Renata Adler
“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.” WorldYearsWarDoneLastsNamesResultsSupportEnvironmentOur LivesSecurityMilitaryDevelopmentExerciseBattleActivityBenefitsResearchConsequenceDestructionBasesMajorityEnvironmentalPreparationCiviliansOur EnvironmentScrutinyBeing DoneResearch And DevelopmentSupport SystemsJust War Book:Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War
“I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be fought over again, and will probably be lost, because the people are already ignorant of its true basis and conditions.” PeopleChristianAmericaLostReligiousLibertyConditionsBattleBasesIgnorantReligious Liberty Author:Robert Dabney
“If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.” PeopleIfsNeedsHas BeensWarLostNationsExistenceFateBattleBasesStrongerContraryRussiaInevitableConsiderationPrimitiveInferiorsEastern Author:Adolf Hitler
“If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.” IfsWarLyingRealizingEffectsInformationBattleBasesStructureRuinsHeatReportsCollapseUncertainContradictoryTransientUnreliable Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.” YearsFirstsHelpingLastsFightingLostWishChanceStruggleBattleBasesSuicideDearNew YearNew Years EveDear FriendHelp With Depression Author:Jared Padalecki
“[Barack] Obama's out there saying it's the number one national security threat [climate change], and he's got his Joint Chiefs of Staff out there planning American battles, military engagements on that basis.” NumbersSecurityMilitaryBattleBasesThreatClimateClimate ChangePlanningChiefsBarackEngagementStaffNational SecurityJointsChief Of Staff Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives - and the battle of the blogs is on, full blast. No one bothers to ask whether there's any basis in fact for the assertion that this is going to be a "global-warming encyclical."” FactsStoriesAsksHorrorBattleBasesCatholicBotherGlobal WarmingBlogsBlastAssertionGlee Author:George Weigel