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“Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.”

Form Military Preparedness

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.”

Different War Form Turns Decision Situation Moral Issues Military Battle Degrees Constant Factors Wars And Battles

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.”

Form Economic Military Approach Direct Strategy Campaigns Conclusion Proportion Hopeful Significance Indirect Rarity Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.”

People Important Form Spirit Military Willing Concrete

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.”

Ifs Wells Lasts Form Force Laughing Military Planets Europe Unions Western Drawing Ghost Conquer Irony Britain Customs Aspire Military Force Western Europe

Author:Enoch Powell

“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.”

Form Memories Principles Plans Military Figures Circumstances Solutions Solve Absence Drawing Fixed Etc Application Inability Similarity

Book:The Principles of War

Source: The Principles of War

“The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.”

War Form Military Ultimate Confrontation

Author:David Harvey

“Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.”

People World Form Nations Taken Modern Military British Contrary Contact Enterprise Aggressive Conventional British History Modern History

Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”

“The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.”

“America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.”

“Sometime ago, I teamed up with a former Marine attack helicopter pilot. We were both frustrated by biased coverage of women in the military and said, let's form some kind of nonprofit entity where we can start highlighting the prevalence of bias in the media.”

Kind Said Form Media Military Former Pilots Frustrated Entity Bias Marine Coverage Biased Helicopters Nonprofits Highlighting Military Women

Author:Paula Broadwell

“Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.”

Way War Form Levels Military Photograph Senses Regimes Viewers Recruitment

Author:Judith Butler