“The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.” MadeSacrificeMilitaryHonorMembersAcknowledgeAppropriateUnitsFamily And Friends Author:Brian Whitman
“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.” TwoStatesGovernmentPoliticalOrderThreeEconomyTakenMilitaryBalanceHundredWeakCorporationsFeaturesGiantsExpensiveProductiveExecutivesFedsEstablishmentDozenUnitsDistrustCordsMilitiaSlimAutonomousSpinal Cord Author:C. Wright Mills
“[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.” HomeMovingPoliticalLossMilitaryDegreesDistanceUnitsDiminishPolitical PowerHome Base Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.” YearsLongPastForceRolesMilitaryMajorsAreasTasksArmyOperationsCanadaUnitsOver The PastPortDepartureNavalMilitary OperationsTask ForcesHalifax Author:Willie Morris
“The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.” StillsJobsForceMilitaryPercentHundredBiggerAfrican AmericanUnitsHistoricMarineIntegratingCultural Change Author:Renee Montagne
“Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.” MilitaryAuthorityAspectFollowingUnitsCommandersIncompetentUnderrated Author:William H. McRaven
“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
“A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.” EndsPiecesMilitaryFrontsUnitsSpaghetti Author:George S. Patton