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Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.

SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Georges Clemenceau
French politician (1841 - 1929)

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)

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

Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM

It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.

General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
US WWII general & war hero (1880 - 1964)

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577
American historian and author (1936 - 2002)

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)

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

Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett, Eric

The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.

Lorne Bloch

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French military strategist, 1911, July 18 2005 Information Week, P.72

If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.

Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx
US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)

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