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
More Quotes By Peter F. Hamilton
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
Always trust in proven survivors.
Like the original concept, the stormrider had rectangular blades, sixteen of them radiating out from the hub, each one a flat lattice of struts twenty-five kilometers long, made from the toughest steelsilicon fibers the Commonwealth knew how to manufacture. Twenty-three kilometers of them were covered...
The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful
Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.
