“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.” ImportantGovernmentFeltEnjoyCareersCasesStudyMilitaryStudentsCollegeChosenComedianVietnamCompletingMilitary Service Book:The Truth (with jokes) Source: The Truth (with jokes)
“I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.” FirstsImportantProcessInterestingStudyMilitaryReformExposed Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.” IfsMayLosesLinesStudyMilitaryBalanceApproachAspectSightStrategyResistancePsychologicalAppealsOpponentsIndirectObviousness Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.” MenGivingMindEnergyTeachStudyMilitaryExampleAffairRelax Author:Michel de Montaigne
“I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.” FirstsStillsWarCharacterWinningStudyMilitaryDefenseProfitableNo WarArmamentDeterrent Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!” WarUseFoundDifficultStudyMilitaryDaughterConnectionsCommunicateContactThanksMy DaughterPentagonMitNicaragua Author:Noam Chomsky
“For years I have been accused of making snap judgments. Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly, are the result of years of thought and study.” YearsHas BeensResultsCasesStudyMilitaryStudentsJudgmentProfoundHonestlyAccusedSnapsSnap Judgment Author:George S. Patton
“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
“War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.” GivingShouldWarAbilityStudyPlansCrazyMilitaryMadBreathingLeisureLeisure Time Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.” PeopleIfsArtWarAbleWantedFightingCoursesStudyShareMilitaryRevolutionTrainingWarfareArt Of WarHazardsGuerrillasGuerrilla WarfareMilitary Training Book:No Easy Walk to Freedom Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom