“This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.” FormMemoriesPrinciplesPlansMilitaryFiguresCircumstancesSolutionsSolveAbsenceDrawingFixedEtcApplicationInabilitySimilarity Book:The Principles of War Source: The Principles of War
“I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.” ThinkingMilitaryFigures Author:Frank Buckles
“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
“Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.” TryingAmericaMilitaryFiguresResponseLatinAfghanistanUniformsOld FashionedLatin AmericaHindranceHurdleObstructionQatarObfuscation Author:Nick Turse
“[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.” KindPersonsMilitaryFiguresTonePartisans Author:John Heilemann
“There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness.” TryingYearsHas BeensEndsMightAsksJusticeStudyIssuesEffectsMilitaryFiguresRepublicanAdministrationDepartmentReportsLgbtGatesBobUnitsCouncilEffectivenessJohnsonPentagonCohesion Author:Barack Obama
“When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.” AmericaNextSpaceRaceMilitaryFiguresObjectsConceptsInnovationDrivenSpace Race Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson