Troops Quotes - Page 12

• We've always defined conflict fairly broadly from ideological conflict to troops on the ground. For quite some time we've talked about a focus on Palestine. Certainly no one can deny that Israel is conflict with Palestine and no one can deny that the U.S. is the largest supporter of Israel internationally - not only financially, but also in the United Nations where the United States is one of the very few countries that does not recognize Palestine as a state.

  Jon Rubin

  Country, Israel, Focus

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That`s more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  War, Gun, Iraq

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

  Michael Hastings

  War, Team, Giving

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Look at the violence in Pakistan and the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan: the more troops we put in the more violent Pakistan becomes.

  Michael Hastings

  Looks, Pakistan, Violence

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he's been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops. The Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Iraq, Numbers

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Creo que la posición del presidente [Barack Obama] ha sido muy clara sobre Siria. Quiere más agresividad, ha puesto a las Operaciones Especiales sobre el terreno, de hecho una de las críticas republicanas es que tiene a miles de americanos allí. Simplemente no los llamamos tropas sobre el terreno, no lo admitimos. Pero están allí.

  Juan Williams

  Thinking, Special, Criticism

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Dark, Night

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Taken, Cutting

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Art, War

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

  Sun Tzu

  Arte, Guerra, Conmoción

  Sun Tzu, Nicolás Maquiavelo (2013). "El arte completo de la guerra", p.67, Simon and Schuster.

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• Para asegurar la victoria, las tropas deben confiar tanto en sí mismas como en sus comandantes.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  War, Victory, Wells

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• He vivido lo suficiente. Mi manera de la vida es caer en el sere, la hoja amarilla, y eso que debe acompañar vejez, como honor, amor, obediencia, tropas de amigos que no debo mirar para tener.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Fall, Yellow

  William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No puede permitirse destinar más tropas", susurró Holly. La puerta es su prioridad, y necesita tener tantos Berserkers cubriéndole las espaldas como sea posible. Somos secundarios en este punto. Eso será su perdición", jadeó Artemis, que ya sufría bajo el peso del chaleco antibalas. Artemis Fowl nunca será secundaria". Creía que tú eras Artemis Fowl Segundo", dijo Holly.

  Eoin Colfer

  Priorities, Hollies, Suffering

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• Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort of thinking you might want to do that for me." She shook her head and leaned back on one elbow, giving him her witchiest, bitchiest smile. "Strip." "Now, listen here, Francie--" Lifting a languid hand, she once again pointed toward the center of the room. "Do it real slow, good-looking," she purred. "I want to enjoy every minute.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Real, Thinking, Clothes

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2005). “Fancy Pants”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

  Jared Diamond

  Rhinos, Empires, Shock

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.352, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Como honor, amor, obediencia, tropas de amigos, / no debo buscar tener; sino, en su lugar, / Maldiciones, no fuertes sino profundas, honor de boca, aliento, / Que el pobre corazón quisiera negar, y no se atreve" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Looks, Mouths

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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• It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, News, Pieces

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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• Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  Country, Responsibility, Fighting

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• La ignorancia selectiva, piedra angular de la educación infantil. No hay que vigilar a los niños: podrían asustarse. Los padres deben sentarse erguidos en la silla de montar y contemplar a sus tropas con una mirada noble y benévola y extremadamente miope.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

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• The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.

  Sun Tzu

  Arte, Guerra, Batalla

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• If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

  Sun Tzu

  Arte, Guerra, Lucha

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  César Chávez

  Correr, Guerra, Lucha

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• Hay tres formas en que los hombres consiguen lo que quieren: planificando, trabajando y rezando. Cualquier gran operación militar requiere una cuidadosa planificación, o pensamiento. Luego hay que tener tropas bien entrenadas para llevarla a cabo: eso es trabajar. Pero entre el plan y la operación siempre hay una incógnita. Esa incógnita significa la derrota o la victoria, el éxito o el fracaso. Es la reacción de los actores ante la prueba cuando ésta llega realmente. Algunos llaman a eso tener suerte; yo lo llamo Dios. Dios tiene su parte, o su margen en todo, Ahí es donde entra la oración.

  George S. Patton

  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.

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• The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

  Joseph Stilwell

  War, Half, World

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