Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.
Paul FussellTags: petty-mind-mocks chickenshit letter-of-law military-philosophy
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
Sun TzuTags: philosophy war chinese epistemology empiricism military-philosophy
Nothing but sunrise and sunsetting
Men fighting the things that are-
Birthgiving and bloodletting
And a drunk god snoring afar.
Tags: military-quote military-philosophy
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
Maybe I trust you to be a man and handle the gray reality of truth better than all these kids who still think in black-and-white.”
Commander Zeke Waters from The Only Way Out Is In
Tags: military-philosophy
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
Sun TzuTags: military military-philosophy
Certainly, I believed that our democratic system of government was the best thing going. I was a flag-waver from way back. I was proud of my country. It was the moral weakness of our leaders that concerned me. They were prone to the same frailties of arrogance, greed, and sanctimony as those of any other country. The primitive concept of 'might makes right' still reigned supreme. Hadn't thousands of years of history taught us anything?
Richard CezarTags: military-leaders military-philosophy
The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. Was war just a power game for an elite few? Did the loss of human lives really matter to them, or was it just a way to keep score? In reading their own staff-authored speeches over and over again, had they deluded themselves, believing that any action they took was in the cause of freedom and thereby righteous?
Richard CezarTags: military-leaders military-philosophy
It's hard to win a war with a front at your back.
Gregory S. CloseTags: humor inspirational military-philosophy
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