“While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.” HumansWarStatesFacesLyingCausesMilitaryPolicyObjectsSourceConflictDeterminationFundamentalsContraryPursueOpposingHuman WillContinuance Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.” MenFeelsDoeFacesLeaderMilitaryFrontsColdShotsInstinctSoldierWarmProtectionHolesCourageousShellsComradeTrenchesComradeship Author:Bernard Law Montgomery
“(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.” TryingUseMightFacesForcePresidentMilitaryVoteChiefsCommandersCommander In ChiefMilitary ForcePresident Nixon Author:Carl T. Rowan
“A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.” TryingFacesDealsSituationLeaderMilitaryDutyCourtMilitary Leader Author:Albert Kesselring
“The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.” HeartHelpingWantedFacesParentVoiceChallengesIssuesFocusWifeHeardMilitaryMy HeartDecidedPressureLoved OnesClosestPeersCopingSingle ParentWorking Women Author:Michelle Obama
“Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.” IfsNeedsMayEnoughAbleEarthFacesEconomyMilitaryTerritorySovietTroopsGlobesEquipmentRocketsAggressorsMilitary Power Author:Sergey Biryuzov
“We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.” KnowsMayHappensFacesPoliticalMilitaryDefeat Author:Moshe Sharett
“President Vladimir Putin continues to call for new peace plans as his troops roll through the Ukrainian countryside and he absolutely ignores every agreement that his country has signed in the past and he has signed recently, we, the United States, and Europe as a whole, have to stand with Ukraine at this moment. Ukraine needs our financial assistance and support as it pursues reforms and even in the face, in the face of this military onslaught.” NeedsCountryStatesWholeMomentsPastFacesPeacePresidentUnitedUnited StatesSupportPlansMilitaryEuropeFinancialPursueReformAgreementTroopsAssistancePutinUkraineCountrysideUkrainianFinancial Assistance Author:Joe Biden
“Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.” KnowsWayWarHandsAmericaFacesProcessRealizingAttitudeMilitaryCostConceptsMachinesSpendingDefenseSecureUselessAttachmentSovietSentimentalMilitary SpendingOverspending Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The image of a country is not just about economic and military strength. The soft face of a country also makes a difference. Sports are one such soft power which can capture the world's attention to India.” WorldCountryFacesSportsDifferencesAttentionEconomicMilitaryIndiaMaking A DifferenceCapture Author:Narendra Modi
“It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.” JobsFacesMilitaryForgivingMeetingsFace To FaceBin LadenOsama Bin LadenInspirational MilitaryAmerican MilitaryUs MilitaryVeteran AppreciationUnited States MilitaryMilitary MemorialHistorical MilitaryMilitary General Author:Norman Schwarzkopf
“We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars maintaining 5,000 nuclear weapons. I think we need major reform in the military, making it more cost effective, but also focusing on the real crisis that faces America.” ThinkingNeedsRealAmericaFacesMilitaryCostMajorsWeaponsCrisisDollarsSpendingNuclearBillionsReformNuclear WeaponsMaintaining Author:Bernie Sanders
“As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.” IfsFacesNationsCausesDifficultDemocracyMilitaryPlanetsDevelopmentAppreciateRootsThreatInvestmentVery GoodStableSustainable DevelopmentInstabilityRoot CauseGreatest Military Author:Martin O'Malley
“With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.” IfsDoeUseWould BeFacesMovingLostSpaceTeamMilitaryCircumstancesWeaponsDestructionIraqExtremesNeighborIntenseOverwhelmingRegimesAvoidingSaddamSuicidalInvasionSurveillanceConcealedInspectionMonitoringConcealed Weapons Author:Jimmy Carter
“I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.” PeopleStatesFacesForcePresidentUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryIraqAfghanistanDeploymentMilitary ForceUnited States Military Author:Colin Powell
“How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.” PeopleYearsHelpingFacesOrderSocialSituationCasesRiskMilitaryExampleSeriousConsequenceCapacityDoctorsWillingnessCompelledEmergenciesEpidemicsColonizationGuineaSierraEbolaSierra Leone Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.” MayI CanWarFacesFightingMilitaryDangerSoldierNurseCompelledNursingNever FearInspirational NurseInspirational NursingInspiring NursingNursing SchoolGreat NursingAmerican Red Cross Author:Clara Barton
“Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.” WarFacesCourageMilitaryArmyEducatedUselessBulletsUseless Stuff Author:George S. Patton