Men with power either trumpet to everyone just how powerful they are, or they use that power effectively by keeping quiet about it, and going about their duties.
He slapped one hand against the breech of the Thompson, slapped again, pulsing frustration, and said aloud, Dammit!
As has happened in the American Civil War and World War I, the technology for mass destruction has far outpaced man’s ability to maintain the peace.
A condition of war’ exists.
Know
Control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and
To his left he saw the other regiments, men from New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Men like these, he thought, just farmers and shopkeepers, and now we are soldiers, and now we are about to die.
It’s so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It’s about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job i...
If you are not affected, if you are not hurt by what we do, then you will not do anything to stop it. The war will simply continue. As long as it is just the soldiers,
Colonel, General Sheridan will be big enough for all of us before this is through.
Primarily American force would drive north and east
Hatchway with both hands, took a breath, glanced up, across the rows of tanks, half-tracks, and armored trucks moving into line. He watched as the oil trucks moved away,
Armies von Arnim
Two things an officer must do, to lead men. This from old Ames, who never cared about love: You must care for your men’s welfare. You must show physical courage. Well,
Too far! Dammit, I need a rifle! But his own men were answering, the M-1s close beside him opening up. I got one! I got one! Marley’s
The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.
I always have felt that we are a nation that is very different . . . unique, perhaps. We were founded by thinking men, brilliant men, men who designed a system where conflicts were resolved in debate,...
Chamberlain
The hard look of a man who also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fa...