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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Numbers, Leader

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• I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

  Sebastian Junger

  Cynical, Connections, Vietnam

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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• Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  Mike Jackson

  Campaigns, Friction, Operations

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• If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

  David Graeber

  Country, Powerful, Giving

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• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  Hari Kunzru

  Thinking, Fiction, Kind

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• Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

  Jon Krakauer

  Guilty, Investigation

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• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  Kamisese Mara

  Two, Fiji, Ordeals

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Science, People, Genius

  "The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Science". Book by Theodore von Karman, p. 268, 1967.

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• I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

  Fred Korematsu

  Unconstitutional

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• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Trophies, Usefulness, Values

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

  Martin McGuinness

  Car, Facts, Elements

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• I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Thinking, Giving, Soldier

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  Rachel Maddow

  Preparedness, Form

  "'Drift': Rachel Maddow On Why We Go To War". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  Barbara Lee

  War, Years, Nine

  "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

  Donna Leon

  Antagonism, Particular

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• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  Rachel Maddow

  America, Maintaining, Financial

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• Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

  Chalmers Johnson

  America, Safety, United States

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• The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

  Wendell Berry

  Independent, Technology, Differences

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.16, Counterpoint

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• In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

  Carl Andrew Spaatz

  War, Home, Islands

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• Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Sports, Fighting, Air

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• We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Marine, Army

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• Choose to win
  Get mad, then get over it.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Winning, Mad, Over It

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• Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Men, Leader, Soldier

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• The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Gun, Thinking, Curves

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• To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

  Myriam Miedzian

  War, Doubt, Serious

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.71, Lantern Books

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