“With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.” IfsMeanWarWantedMistakeMilitaryIraqFighterNavyOnly TimeMarineIsisShacklesMarinersMaritimeNavy Seal Author:Marcus Luttrell
“Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.” MenBodyMistakeMilitaryArmyDiplomatsRectifyGreat MilitaryMilitary Man Author:Josephus Daniels
“He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.” LongMadeWarMistakeMilitary Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.” WorldMistakeMoralMilitaryWeaknessInnocencePalestinian Author:Ilana Mercer
“Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.” CountryMistakeRiskSecurityMilitarySeriousImpactThreatClimateClimate ChangeOur CountryNational Security Author:Barack Obama
“We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.” PeopleKindWarMistakeCasesHappenedMilitaryVersionsFatal Mistakes Author:Stephen Fry
“Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.” KnowsMadeMovingMistakeMilitaryBattleBiggerVietnamTroopsMade A MistakeMilitary HistoryAmerican Military Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.” GuyMistakeMilitaryBombsOne MistakeGoalkeepers Author:Artur Boruc
“We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In Libya, the country must first of all be stabilized to stop IS. This means supporting the Libyan government, including in terms of security. We don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past in that country. The situation is extremely dangerous and the next days could be decisive.” WantNeedsFirstsMeanWarEndsCountryGovernmentPastNextStrongTermMistakeSituationSecurityMilitaryDangerousIncludingIraqRepeatsAfghanistanSyriaNext DayBreakthroughDiplomaticLibyaDeployment Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.” MistakeMilitaryComplexesArroganceSuicidalIsraeliFatal Mistakes Author:Yasser Arafat
“The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and by not being part of the new Iraq. They had reasons for this: They were effected by the disestablishment of the military and by de-Baathification (the dismantling of Saddam Hussein's party) in winter 2007-2007. They increasingly recognized that their future lay in being part of the solution rather than a continuing part of the problem.” MadeReasonProblemRealizingPartyMistakeMilitaryHugeSolutionsElectionLaysWinterIraqVotingContinuingSaddamHusseinNot Voting Author:David Petraeus
“Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.” PeopleArtMadeStatesPhilosophyPoliticalLiteratureViewsPartyMistakeCreativeMilitaryRevolutionAspectEveningChineseMisfortunesMinorsMarxismPolitical ScienceChairmanMade A MistakeMaoChairman MaoMarxism LeninismChinese RevolutionLiterature And Art Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Congress has created and funded a huge peacetime military that has substantial abilities to wage offensive operations, and it has not placed restrictions on the use of that military or the funds to support it, because it would rather let the president take the political risks in deciding on war. If Congress wanted to play a role in restricting war, it could - it simply does not want to. But we should not mistake a failure of political will for a violation of the Constitution.” WarPoliticalPresidentAbilityMistakeSupportRiskMilitaryConstitutionFundOffensive Author:John Yoo
“As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."” WarMistakeEnemyMilitaryBattleIsraeliBig Mistake Author:Norman Finkelstein
“One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.” ThinkingMenMindMistakeTeachWorstMilitaryTrainingConsequenceEmbarrassmentAstronautFireman Author:David Saint-Jacques
“Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.” WorldMeanWould BeCoursesGoalMistakeLeaderMilitaryMissionsPursueRegimesBetter OffOther WorldsWorld LeaderLibyaRegime ChangeGaddafi Author:Barack Obama