“My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.” BookDifferentMatterKidsReadingForceInterestMilitaryDadBedWeaponsRedArmyMy DadBook ReadingArmed ForcesSwedishRed Army Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.” BookWarTogetherHouseNationsMilitaryTerribleToolsDecentBombsHospitalsAircraftTogether We Can Book:The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now Source: The Gospel According to RFK: Why it Matters Now
“The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.” PeopleBookWarProblemLightSpiritualOrderTurnsAtheismMilitaryAuthorityPositive AtheismRevelationsSecularTheologicalBook Of Revelation Author:H. L. Mencken
“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
“From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsBookRealityAgeCoursesSeeingMilitaryHorrorConsciousScaredFrightenedCopFiremanExorcist Author:Ralph Sarchie
“I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted with them and read books. As far as the character itself, I don't know how you can research being a focused guy, aside from just being a focused person and knowing what that's like. Outside of the character background and all that, there wasn't a whole lot of other stuff to really delve into. You just do what you do.” KnowsPersonsBookWholeCharacterGuyStuffKnow HowKnowingMilitaryResearchPoliceActiveFocusedBackgroundsJust BeingExesProcedures Author:Tim Kang
“For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.” BookFunPleasureClearFocusMilitaryPicksCapers Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
“[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody who ends up reading the book wants to do so as a result.” MenWantBookIdeasEndsReadingResultsCitiesProgressMilitaryNew YorkOrganizationWeatherOver ItNew York CityManhattanDomesBad WeatherBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.” PeopleThinkingBookSometimesStuffRealizingMilitaryResearchKillingObstaclesCombatPullingTriggersPulling The Trigger Author:Charlie Brooker
“I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the Treaty Room, in the residence. And he talks about his concerns about the use of military in Iraq. And I said I felt the same concerns, but it might be that we have to use it. In which case, he said, "I support you."” ThinkingSaidBookUseMightFeltRoomsCasesSupportMilitaryKeysConcernIraqTreatiesDiscussingAnecdotesUpstairsSupport YouResidence Author:George W. Bush
“[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.” BookIndividualMilitaryStrategyLibraryMilitary HistoryGeneral James Mattis Author:Peter R. Mansoor
“If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!'” IfsLooksBookWarRealProblemJobsAnswersMilitaryMinesPerceptionHappeningsOfficersAccurateRankingGulf WarLogistics Author:Paul Virilio
“Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference between him and a military government? Very little. I read his remarks on the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Well, yes. But then the AKP would have to ban all other political parties, close down all critical newspapers, burn the books critical of the regime and gas the Kurds to death...the final solution of the Kurdish 'problem.' Somehow I don't think he is about to do that.” ThinkingBookPoliticalPartyMilitarySolutionsCriticsJournalismGasPolitical Parties Author:Tariq Ali
“The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things. It's not to advance anybody's social agenda. It's not a laboratory for the left's social ideas or playgrounds. It is to kill people and break things, and the second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules. And if they violate an existing rule book, then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules, and right now, Putin is setting the rules.” PeopleBookPurposeBreakMilitaryConflictLaboratory Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.” PeopleWorldWritingBookWarMilitaryAnd LoveInstanceWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiGrandfatherMy GrandfatherTangibleOlder PeopleMilitary History Author:Jon Meacham