“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.” FirstsMeanEndsMightForceMoralEnemyAirEconomicAchieveMilitaryPossibilityDirectDestructionOppositionCentreBattlefieldsAir ForceIndirectAir PowerHopping Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.” HandsSufferingSawsRiskCrazyConditionsMilitaryFiguresRedCrossesDoctorsHospitalsBattlefieldsNightingalesGreat RiskFlorenceRed CrossSanitaryAmerican Red CrossFlorence NightingaleBad Health Author:Sharon Lawrence
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.” MenWayLifeWarMomentsEnergyDifficultHistoryDoubtMilitaryDangerDutyDifficultyAngerAdversitySalvationCurrentsAidsPhasesUncertainHistoricBattlefieldsAscent Book:Report to Greco Source: Report to Greco
“You have to have a military and intelligence approach to removing leadership that results in rapid frequent removals from the battlefield. It's got to be one, two a week, not just one or two every three or four months.” TwoThreeResultsFourWeekMilitaryMonthsApproachJust OneRapidsBattlefieldsRemoval Author:Michael Morell
“On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.” HomeNationsBehindsMilitaryReturnArmySoldierComing HomeVeteranPledgeBattlefieldsComebackVeterans DayInspirational MilitaryUs ArmyBattleground Author:Dan Lipinski
“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.” InspirationalWarMotivationalAmericaLostRoomsHistoryMilitaryTelevisionComfortVietnamVietnam WarBrutalityBattlefieldsLiving Room Author:Marshall McLuhan
“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.” FightingMilitaryFoolHeroBraveryBraveCowardBe BraveBattlefieldsChampagneAshley Wilkes Author:Margaret Mitchell