“The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.” KindLastsOrderCoursesForceHappenedAirMilitaryMedicineViolentCombatPsychiatryAssignmentsAir ForceEnlisted Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.” PeopleWorldHardShowsPoliticalForceCasesClearHappenedMilitaryUnionsDemocraticIntentionInspiredSovietSoviet UnionDominationCrushedCuba Author:Augusto Pinochet
“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.” PeopleWellsImportantPoliticalReadingRolesEconomyOur LivesFailingHappenedEconomicMilitaryInformationComfortableMachinesIntelligentFinancialMedicalTitlesOddPhenomenonArtificial IntelligenceArticlesArtificialPhasesIntegratedIntelligent Machines Book:The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
“We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.” PeopleKindWarMistakeCasesHappenedMilitaryVersionsFatal Mistakes Author:Stephen Fry
“I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?” IfsWellsMeanDoneHappenedMilitaryProudComplainingUnhappyBragging Author:Karl Marlantes
“Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.” WorldFirstsDifferentWarEasyRaceHappenedMilitaryDependsFirst TimeWar Of The WorldsVietnamIntegrationSecond World WarDifferent Races Author:Karl Marlantes
“The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion. Fifty years on, I don't associate the book with anything that ever happened to me, save for one wordless encounter at London airport when a worn-out, middle-aged military kind of man in a stained raincoat slammed a handful of mixed foreign change on to the bar and in gritty Irish accents ordered himself as much Scotch as it would buy. In that moment, Alec Leamas was born. Or so my memory, not always a reliable informant, tells me.” MenYearsKindBookEndsMomentsPoliticalBornImaginationMemoriesHappenedMiddleMilitaryColdLondonBarsConfusionEncountersFiftyThat MomentDisgustingWornAccentsAssociatesSpyAirportsHandfulMiddle AgedWorn OutScotchInformantsIrish Accent Author:John le Carre
“What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means to succeed there has to be a partner. And the definition of partnership is someone willing to risk their lives in their home area to prevail because they think it's necessary to build a decent life and a better life for their people.” PeopleThinkingMeanHomeGamesRiskHappenedMilitaryWillingSucceedAreasDefinitionsPartnersDecentVietnamPartnershipBetter LifeTurfAmerican MilitaryDecent Life Author:William J. Clinton
“My fear is that that's what's going to happen with robotics and the military. Importantly, this discussion has to involve not just the scientists, but also the political scientists. It's got to be a multidisciplinary discussion. You can't have it be another repeat of what happened with the people working on the atomic bomb.” PeopleHappensPoliticalHappenedMilitaryScientistDiscussionRepeatsBombsRoboticsAtomic BombMultidisciplinary Author:Peter Singer
“Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There’s no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.” IfsWellsLooksDoneWould BeLeaderHappenedMilitaryRegardIraqAdministrationOperationsGet AwayAlsCaptureAfghanistanJustificationInvasionBin LadenAl QaedaMilitary Operations Author:Maurice Hinchey
“First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them].” GivingFirstsWantedLawCasesViolenceHappenedMilitaryLet MeProtectionMinoritiesCommentDictatorshipDictatorPakistanBlasphemyActs Of Violence Author:Shahbaz Bhatti