We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Suddenly, the brave warriors parading to combat with bugles and bayonets were replaced by the push of a button.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die.Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.