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  • Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

    Art   Military   War  
  • When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

    "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.
  • Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  • There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

    Prayer   Military   Army  
    "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.
  • There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2966, Simon and Schuster
  • There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]

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

    War   Lying   Military  
    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.21, Shambhala Publications
  • A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

    Freedom   War   Military  
  • Climate Change is a national security issue. We found that climate instability will lead to instability in geopolitics and impact American military operations around the world. People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections. But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

  • It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.

    Military   Iraq   Support  
    "A Critic's Defeatist Rhetoric" by David Asman, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2005.
  • You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

  • The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

  • I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

    Girl   Mother   Dream  
    "Malala's diary / "I am afraid"". Cited in: Malala Yousafzai: Portrait of the girl blogger, 10 October 2012, www.bbc.com. January 3, 2009.
  • War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

    "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.
  • It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.

    Military   Risk   Desire  
    Source: www.realclearworld.com
  • Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

    Military   Dawn   Ships  
  • I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

  • Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there [in Crimea], but it was to ensure people's safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will. We did that. But it would not have been possible without the Crimeans' own strong resolution.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Dominicus Corea had a posthumous son, Lewis Corea who became the Dissawe of Uva. Sir Paul Peiris wrote that `With the disappearance of Dominicus Corea, came a short lull in military operations of which the Portuguese officials availed themselves to give free rein to that rapacity which so frequently disgraced their careers in the East'. Dominicus Corea was succeeded by his brother Simon, as Dissawe of the Sat Korale, Kotte and Sitawaka.

    Brother   Military   Son  
  • Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done by the previous administration because they knew very well that if they would capture al Qaeda, there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq. There’s no question that the leader of the military operations of the U.S. called back our military, called them back from going after the head of al Qaeda.

    Military   Iraq   Leader  
    "Dem: Bush intentionally lost bin Laden" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 30, 2009.
  • So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

    Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.65, Shambhala Publications
  • The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

    Military   Air   Support  
  • The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

  • OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.

    Running   Military   Iraq  
    "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.
  • [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  • We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

    Military   War   Media  
  • The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

  • The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

    Military   Army   Past  
  • If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

    Country   Military   Fall  
    Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44
  • Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

    Military   Land   Iraq  
    "Moqtada al-Sadr orders halt to attacks on US troops stationed in Iraq". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.
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