I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian l….
Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, i….
I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace..
In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend w….
I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the ch….
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….
It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military..
There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded mili….
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matt….
War is the mother of everything..
I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you try to avoid that at all costs. Sometimes it'….
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious..
We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but cer….
I'm totally changed. I've been emancipated from all this Republican dogma. Whether it's being anti-immigration, being-anti gay, being militaristic an….
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being….
For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and n….
First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organiz….
The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in t….
Force has no place where there is need of skill..
Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless….
I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were….