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Military Intelligence is a contradiction.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, intelligence

Military Intelligence is not a contradiction in terms, Light Infantry is!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, intelligence, light

Military working dogs attack anything that moves - including you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, attack

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy...

Quote by M. H. Abrams about tests, voice, ability

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Quote by Tommy Lee Jones about patriotism, americans, common sense, nothing, things

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about liberty, society

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

Quote by Charles Babbage about animals, man

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about society, man

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Quote by Joe Baca about proudness, man, moment

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Quote by John Abizaid about mentality, things, people

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Quote by John Abizaid

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

Quote by John Abizaid

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Quote by Dean Acheson about aircraft, self-control

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about world

Against mighty odds you held the line and faced down a huge military foe, the British Crown Forces and their surrogates in the unionist death squads.

Quote by Gerry Adams about force, death

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Quote by Winston Churchill about air, power, good, good luck

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Quote by Charles Dickens about drinking, love, life

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about force, talent

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about war, defeat, real estate