Every Marine was trained in handling a rifle, no matter what noncombat job he might assume down the road. Right now, at Hagaru-ri, every Marine was now a rifleman.
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,
Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the f...
Chamberlain
All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time. —COLONEL LEWIS CHESTY PULLER
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...
He slapped one hand against the breech of the Thompson, slapped again, pulsing frustration, and said aloud, Dammit!
Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.
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.
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...
Annoyance, Eisenhower knew that the prolonged
Control of Tunisia, and in both Algeria and
Primarily American force would drive north and east
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
Colonel, General Sheridan will be big enough for all of us before this is through.
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,...
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.
Care about right now is how long this is
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