“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” ChildrenWarUseProblemFunnyEvilForceNationsPeacePoorMilitarySolutionsDirectLibertarianSarcasmCombatAntiwarProblem SolvingEmployedPeace WarSmall ChildSolution To A ProblemJust WarUse Of ForceMilitary SoldierSoldiers At WarPro War Author:David Friedman
“There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.” WorldWarMatterFactsHelpingAblePoliticalForceCausesDifferencesViolenceMilitarySolutionsRootsTablesCleanIraqSolveMessLastingResolveTroopsSettlementOur TroopsRoot CauseKurdsAmerican MilitaryShia Author:Barack Obama
“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'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.” PeopleHumansEndsCountryTogetherMilitarySolutionsMajoritySignificantSyriaInterventionSaying NoMilitary Intervention Author:Desmond Tutu
“The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.” WorldIdeasCountryPoliticalEvilForceResponsibilityLeaderMoralMilitaryConflictSolutionsRaisedScaredSolveOur CountryPolitical LeadersMoral ResponsibilityTrue Evil Author:Greg Gutfeld
“In every conflict, some rhetoric and posturing, so we should take that aside. When facts is that everybody is exhausted and that no one believes that there is a military solution to this. The solution must be a political one.” ShouldBelieveFactsPoliticalMilitaryConflictSolutionsRhetoricExhausted Author:Staffan de Mistura
“An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.” MindMeanHas BeensWarEndsCareSuccessfulMilitaryPerspectiveSolutionsTake CareCyclesSoleAdoptionUnendingIncessantEminence Author:George S. Patton
“I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse” EndsSawsMilitarySolutions Author:Sting
“Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.” Has BeensMilitarySolutionsIraq Author:Christopher Dodd
“There is no military solution to the challenges of Syria.” ChallengesMilitarySolutionsSyria Author:David Petraeus
“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
“I'm very pleased this military engagement together with a political road map that we developed, we were able to continue. We want to bring about a political solution there. We worked very closely together [with Barack Obama] on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia's attempt to actually conquer Ukraine and actually, they did so, conquer part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.” WantAbleTogetherPoliticalIssuesMilitarySolutionsRussiaPeacefulConquerBarackMapsTerritoryEngagementUkraineSettlementRoad MapsCrimeaAnnexation Author:Angela Merkel
“"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.” WantWellsMeanLongInterestMilitaryDesignSolutionsSoldierAuthenticityLastingClothingsStemGarmentsMachoLong LastingFunctionalityDurability Author:William Gibson
“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.” WorldWarProblemTodayPeaceMilitarySolutionsAnti WarAntiwarWorld TodaySusceptibleIdahoPresidents DayHorror Of War Author:John F. Kennedy
“Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.” SupportMilitarySolutionsPrisonDimensionsSenateClosingGuantanamoGuantanamo Bay Author:Chuck Hagel
“The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.” DoeImportantProblemSocialAnswersMilitarySolutionsDefeatRegimesSocial Change Author:Nigel Gibson
“When I was in London a Kachin youth criticized me for not condemning the Burmese military for their offensive in Kachin State. I answered "condemnation is not the solution." We want to build reconciliation, not condemnation.” WantStatesMilitaryYouthSolutionsLondonOffensiveReconciliationCondemnationCondemning Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.” PeopleWellsLongSaidEndsStatesStoriesProblemGovernmentWantedGreaterAchieveMilitaryTrumpSolutionsBuiltObjectivesAdministrationWelfareEmployeeWelfare StateLong Story Author:Brian Balogh
“[The conversation with John McCain] is not about being a pacifist or- suggesting that you can never have a military solution to things. It's just that, it appears that this is not the smart way to fight this threat.” WayFightingMilitaryConversationSmartSolutionsThreatSuggestingMccainPacifist Author:Jon Stewart
“I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.” PeopleEndsCountryMilitarySolutionsMajoritySignificantSyriaInterventionSaying NoMilitary Intervention Author:Desmond Tutu
“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
“We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual. For me, it's always a failure of diplomacy. Our willingness to immediately turn to a military solution is disturbing.” PeopleDecisionMilitaryListeningSolutionsWillingnessUnusualNuclear WeaponsRhetoricDiplomacyGave Up Author:Michael Hastings
“The more we try to fix the security situation, the more we will drive these people, particularly the Pashtun, into implacable opposition. And whether the military solution is more bombing from Predators or from F-16s or more special forces on the ground, you know, attacking villages and inadvertently killing lots of civilians, it doesn't matter. As long as security comes first, the mission will fail because these people are sick and tired of a government that's oppressing them and a foreigner who's killing them.” PeopleTryingLongSituationFailingSpecialSecurityMilitarySolutionsSickTiredKillingPredator Author:Pierre Sprey
“Men, age 25 to 55, the labor-force participation rate is down 10%. That's unbelievable. There are 35,000 dying of opioids every year. Seventy percent of kids age 17 to 24 can't get into the US military because of health or education. Obesity, diabetes, reading and writing. Is that the society we wanted? No. We should be working on these things, acknowledge the flaws we have, and come up with solutions. Not Democrat. Not Republican. Not knee-jerk.” MenWritingKidsAgeReadingDyingMilitaryRepublicanSolutionsDemocratRateAcknowledgeFlawsParticipationUnbelievableObesityDiabetesReading And Writing Author:Jamie Dimon
“I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the 1980s, and it is true today. You should know that I do not consider myself a pacifist; there are times, in my view, when military action may be necessary.” TodayActionMilitarySolutionsPessimistPacifist Author:Oscar Arias
“There's no military solution to North Korea's nuclear threats, forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us.” PeopleForgetMilitarySolutionsThreatShow MeForget ItNorth Korea Author:Stephen K. Bannon
“We can't, you know, use our military to make sure the planet doesn't get warmer. And so that kind of leadership, of being able to bring people together, to apply practical commonsense solutions based on facts, based on science, based on what works you know, that's been the approach I have taken consistently as a public servant. That's the kind of style that I think we need in the presidency right now.” PeopleThinkingKindTogetherTakenMilitaryStyleSolutionsServantConsistently Author:Barack Obama