The costs of military service are substantial. Many costs are readily apparent; others are less apparent but no less important. Among the most pervasive and potentially disabling consequences of these costs is the threat to the psychological health of our nation's fighting forces, and their families, and their survivors. -- Department of Defense Task Force, 2007 Jay Kopelman
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Anonymous
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
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Ferdinand Foch
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
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William C. Westmoreland
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
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Erwin Rommel
1. Most wars are asymmetrical or irregular.2. In these wars, the guerrillas/irregulars/insurgents do not aim for military victory.3. You can not defeat these groups by killing lots of their members. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>In fact, they want you to do that.4. High-tech weaponry is mostly useless...
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Gary Brecher
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Every marriage that ends in divorce; every serviceman who kills him- or herself; and every time a young warrior experience substance abuse issues, we witness a casualty of war.
The costs of military service are substantial. Many costs are readily apparent; others are less apparent but no less important. Among the most pervasive and potentially disabling consequences of these costs is the threat to the psychological health of our nation's fighting forces, and their...
