The Hitler War was my grandfather’s war; my father’s war – his and Uncle George’s – was Korea, which may have been just as well: George is famous for, amongst other superbly unselfconscious comments, his observation that France is a surprisingly nice bit of country, and the French, more agreeable than is commonly supposed, but the food, sadly, very French.
G.M.W. WemyssTags: korean-war military-history
France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.
William Arthur SirmonTags: inspirational history patriotism america france germany historical-romance wwi rhine military-history world-history
Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.
Lt General Brian HorrocksTags: humour ww2 military-history ww2-history
The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)
Victor Davis HansonTags: wealth society capitalism economics inequality utopia western-culture military-history progressivism income-disparity
I could smell the Viet Cong, really, I could smell Charlie. It wasn’t just his body sweat or the urine. There were times when I could hear the breathing, real quiet; you could hear a person breathe, and I’d know he was in there, and I didn’t go any farther. I just said to myself: In this dark corner of a tunnel is where the animal belongs, a rodent belongs. I’m becoming like a rodent, but still I don’t belong. Yes, I could smell Charlie. And he knew me. The type of cologne I used, the aftershave—that’s when we stopped using it altogether. But there was more than that. There was the scent that told you there was somebody in the tunnels. We became so tuned up after a while that when the other person would flick an eyelid up or down, you really knew he was there, in the corner, not even hiding anymore. Just sitting and waiting. They were the ones you never killed. You just backed out and told them up above the tunnel was cold.
Tom MangoldTags: war combat military-history
Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.
Howard R. SimpsonTags: war military-theory military-history
Those that aspire to raise their head above the crowd are most likely to have it shot off.
Leif HerrgesellTags: history military-history adventure-stories
Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it.
Bruce H. NortonTags: vietnam marines vietnam-war combat military-history foce-recon
Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the men in the hills, oppose a government we support, we call them insurgents.
Dick CouchTags: military-history military-philosophy
May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.
Christine GranvilleTags: inspirational germany biography spy world-war-2 rescue military-history second-world-war soe parachute christine-granville clare-mulley krystyna-skarbek special-agent
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