Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.
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 matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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