“The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.” MenMeanImportantEndsStatesUseUnitedEnemyUnited StatesWiseCrisisInner StrengthRestraintTacticsTempting Author:Frank Church
“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.” WarReasonGovernmentFightingEnemySeaBuildingResourcesArmyCrisisTradeProfitFundReverseIncapableRivalsMonarchsTerritorialMaritime Author:Peter Padfield
“However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.” CertainEnemyViolenceActivityEssentialsDegreesMassCrisisStrikesScalesResistanceCombinationRevolutionaryCampsProvokingLarge Scale Author:Joe Slovo
“Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough” EnoughMomentsUseWishForgetEnemyBecomingMouthsStonesCrisisMereHeavyRationalGoing AwayCavesApesPretenseCivilisationPretensionPrimates Author:Orson Scott Card
“I think that there's an important point to make if you're running for president, which is that you tell the American people how you would handle a crisis. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying here's what I would do in terms of air power, in terms of dealing with the enemy. Donald Trump never says a word. He just says, "I've got a secret plan." He impugns the president .” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantRunningPresidentTermSecretEnemyPlansAirTrumpCrisisClintonHandleAir Power Author:Eric Bolling
“[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.” PeopleWantYearsPastStuffPresidentEnemyMillionsTypeHappeningsCrisisClintonIraqHumanitarianBarackSyriaRefugeePresident Barack ObamaDo Whatever You Want Author:John McCain
“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.” MomentsBodyPainLife IsFightingUniverseEnemyStruggleIssuesColdCrisisForgottenHungerTeethShipsTortureStomachChamberBattlefieldsSinkingSourFrightSleeplessness Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four
“In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.” MomentsBodyFightingEnemyPerceptionCrisisCriticsNovelistsSelf ConsciousSelf DeceptionEssayists Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.” FirstsWarForceBornResultsEffortEnemyBloodMilitaryProduceSonVictoryBattleSolutionsDeterminationDestructionAimCrisisPursueBloodyGreat Results Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.” HumansProblemAgeSocialNaturalLevelsEnemyTechnologyBrokenWasteCrisisAgingHistoricalRefusePursuitFamiliarPrivacyNightmareDisorderMasteryCarelessAmerican SocietyClimaxNatural HistoryWallowingIncoherence Author:Paul Shepard
“Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world.” WorldYearsMayLittlesHas BeensTwoSufferingCoursesLeftMistakeEnemyStudyConditionsMilitaryDutyWeaponsArmyCrisisThreatLeavingSoldierActiveSpendingNuclearErasAppropriateTwo YearsElsewhereNuclear WeaponsContinuingUrgentIrresponsibleReadinessProliferationContinuing On Author:Russ Feingold
“The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.” FirstsWarForceBornEffortEnemyMilitarySonSolutionsDestructionCrisisBloody Book:Selections from On war Source: Selections from On war