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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

General George Catlett Marshall

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen

William Henry

Military men are the scourges of the world

Guy de Maupassant

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

Charles Edward Montague

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

Sun Tzu

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

Louis Simpson

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

Sun Tzu

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

General MacArthur

The side with the simplest uniforms wins.

Maj Mark Cancian

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology

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