History Quotes / ArmchairMilitary

'''WORF''': It is an unworthy reason to bar a man from serving the Empire.\\

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->''"How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess\\
Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk?"''
--> -- '''Music/TomWaits''', "Hell Broke Luce"

->''"They tell us that the Admiral\\
Is as nice as he can be\\
But we never see the Admiral\\
Because the Admiral has never been to sea"''
-->--'''Irving Berlin''', "We Saw the Sea"

->''"Come you masters of war\\
You that build all the guns\\
You that build the death planes\\
You that build all the bombs\\
You that hide behind walls\\
You that hide behind desks\\
I just want you to know\\
I can see through your masks"''
-->--'''Music/BobDylan''', "Masters of War"

->A war waged by committee is a war already lost.
-->-- '''Ecclesiarch Sebastian Thor''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
-->--'''Erich Maria Remarque''', ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''

->'''Otacon''': That ship's been transmitting a live video feed via military satellite uplink for a while now.\\
'''Snake''': So there's some brass out there, smacking their lips over this little home movie... Wherever it is, it must be a warm, dry office with hot coffee on tap.\\
'''Otacon''': A far cry from that tanker, huh? That's what happens when the battlefield has a Revolution in Military Affairs.
-->--''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''

->How did ''you'' get in the Navy? How did ''you'' get on our side? You ignorant, arrogant, ambitious... keeping sixty-two men in prison 'cause you got [[CargoShip a palm tree]] for the work ''they'' did. I don't know which I hate worse, you or that ''other'' [[YesMan malignant growth]] that stands outside the door.
-->--'''Doug Roberts''', ''Mr. Roberts'' (1955)

->“I have ''seen'' the suffering of these people with my own eyes, Yamato. Have you?”
-->-- '''Kaga''', ''Fanfic/TheGreatestGeneration''

!!!RealLife

->Of the war on terror, Creator/ChristopherHitchens once said: ''“I realized that if the battle went on until the last day of my life, I would never get bored in prosecuting it to the utmost.”'' Now comes Bernard-Henri Lévy, who, when asked by Jon Lee Anderson why he supported the intervention in Libya, says, ''“Why? I don’t know! Of course, it was human rights, for a massacre to be prevented, and {{blah blah blah}}….”'' Never underestimate the murder and mayhem men will make, just to escape their boredom.
-->--'''[[http://crookedtimber.org/2015/02/20/human-rights-blah-blah-blah/ John Quiggin]]'''

->The Neocon’s idea of war is like [[KnowNothingKnowItAll the virgin’s idea of sex]]. Neocons are utterly, totally, and completely ignorant of war and the military. No Neocon has ever served in the military, and veterans are categorically excluded from being called a Neocon. Neocons used their wealth and privilege to avoid their generation’s war, yet feel they are qualified experts on the subject. Other than Powell, there was not 5 minutes of actual military experience in the entire Bush administration, which predictably resulted in the dumbest military maneuver since the Maginot Line (Operation Iraqi Freedumb).
-->--'''''Website/UrbanDictionary'''''

-->--'''Erich Maria Remarque''', ''{{All Quiet on the Western Front}}''

''Lefcourt''': My people can handle themselves. We took care of the Dilgar, we can take care of the Minbari!\\

->The old man in the dress-coat, that is the famous General So-and-So. [...] He is the same who initiated the great offensive at V. back then. "The troops of the general", it said in the army bulletin, "were assigned to storm the heights of the village in the night to today." It is he who assigned them. His light blue, slightly watery eyes which I see before me give no hint that this man once stood next to a telephone, with maps, sketches, pencils and aide-de-camps before him, and shouted an order into the mouthpiece with an excited voice. "Will you see to it ...!" the voice said. Then he hung up. The following morning 8472 men fell on our side. They got their mass grave. The general got a medal.

->The old man in the dress-coat, that is the famous General So-and-So. [...] He is the same who initiated the great offensive at V. back then. "The troops of the general", it said in the army bulletin then, "were assigned to storm the heights of the village in the night to today." It is he who assigned them. His light blue, slightly watery eyes which I see there give no hint that this man once stood next to a telephone, with maps, sketches, pencils and aide-de-camps before him, and shouted an order into the mouthpiece with an excited voice. "Will you see to it ...!" the voice said. Then he hung up. The following morning 8472 men fell on our side. They got their mass grave. The general got a medal.

-->The old man in the dress-coat, that is the famous General So-and-So. [...] He is the same who initiated the great offensive at V. back then. "The troops of the general", it said in the army bulletin then, "were assigned to storm the heights of the village in the night to today." It is he who assigned them. His light blue, slightly watery eyes which I see there give no hint that this man once stood next to a telephone, with maps, sketches, pencils and aide-de-camps before him, and shouted an order into the mouthpiece with an excited voice. "Will you see to it ...!" the voice said. Then he hung up. The following morning 8472 men fell on our side. They got their mass grave. The general got a medal.

->''"A war waged by committee is a war already lost."''

->''“You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.”''

->''"The Rebs have decided that bridge is the key to this whole area. Stupid, useless bridge! Flyspeck on Headquarters' maps. Headquarters has declared we must take that ridiculous flyspeck. Even if all of us are killed. Otherwise the key'll get rusty and just be a spot on the wall."''

->'''Otacon''': That ship's been transmitting a live video feed via military satellite uplink for a while now.
->'''Snake''': So there's some brass out there, smacking their lips over this little home movie... Wherever it is, it must be a warm, dry office with hot coffee on tap.
->'''Otacon''': A far cry from that tanker, huh? That's what happens when the battlefield has a Revolution in Military Affairs.
-->--'''''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'''''

->''"'Odd,' said a fellow veteran of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, 'that [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] and Cheney are so delighted to put us to war when, during [[UsefulNotes/VietnamWar Vietnam]], they were what we both used to call draft dodgers.' But then we agreed that in our politics the sissies are always cheerleading the real guys to go give their lives. Real soldiers like Colin Powell are less gung ho."''

->''“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorize and organize the worst war crimes.”''

->''"The Neocon’s idea of war is like [[KnowNothingKnowItAll the virgin’s idea of sex]]. Neocons are utterly, totally, and completely ignorant of war and the military. No Neocon has ever served in the military, and veterans are categorically excluded from being called a Neocon. Neocons used their wealth and privilege to avoid their generation’s war, yet feel they are qualified experts on the subject. Other than Powell, there was not 5 minutes of actual military experience in the entire Bush administration, which predictably resulted in the dumbest military maneuver since the Maginot Line (Operation Iraqi Freedumb)."''
-->--'''''UrbanDictionary'''''

->''"The Rebs have decided that bridge is the key to this whole area. Stupid, useless bridge! Flyspeck on Headquarters' maps. Headquarters has declared we must take that ridiculous flyspeck. Even if all of us are killed. Otherwise the key'll get rusty and just be a spot on the wall. "''

->''"'Odd,' said a fellow veteran of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, 'that [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]] and Cheney are so delighted to put us to war when, during [[UsefulNotes/VietnamWar Vietnam]], they were what we both used to call draft dogers.' But then we agreed that in our politics the sissies are always cheerleading the real guys to go give their lives. Real soldiers like Colin Powell are less gung ho."''

--> -- "Hell Broke Luce," ''Music/TomWaits''

'''Otacon''': A far cry from that tanker, huh? That's what happens when the battlefield has a Revolution in Military Affairs.

->'''Otacon''': That ship's been transmitting a live video feed via military satellite uplink for a while now.\\
'''Snake''': So there's some brass out there, smacking their lips over this little home movie... Wherever it is, it must be a warm, dry office with hot coffee on tap.\\

->''They tell us that the Admiral\\

Because the Admiral has never been to sea''

--> -- "Hell Broke Luce," ''TomWaits''

->''"'Odd,' said a fellow veteran of WorldWarII, 'that [[GeorgeWBush Bush]] and Cheney are so delighted to put us to war when, during [[VietnamWar Vietnam]], they were what we both used to call draft dogers.' But then we agreed that in our politics the sissies are always cheerleading the real guys to go give their lives. Real soldiers like Colin Powell are less gung ho."''

-> A war waged by committee is a war already lost.

-> How is it that the only ones responsible for making this mess got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk?
--> -- "Hell Broke Luce," ''TomWaits''

-->-- '''Ecclesiarch Sebastian Thor''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

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