To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. – Jonathan Sacks
If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS. – Jack Keane
We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training. – Jack Keane
Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed. – John Gregory Dunne
We need a defense budget that’s big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army. – Jim Talent
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then. – John Templeton
ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance. – John Barrasso
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. – Janine di Giovanni
The British don’t runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We’re used to it. – John Major
There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that. – James Mattis
The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare. – James Mattis
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven. – Julianne Moore
The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army. – Jack Keane
For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he’s got to do is provide it with an objective. – Joseph Brodsky
With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along – that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army. – Jim Ryun
Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel – about 40% of the male population. – Ismail Haniyeh
I don’t need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army… operates according to the international law guidelines. – Isaac Herzog
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed – a salute was more like a friendly wave. – Antony Beevor
Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need. – Becky G
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. – Antony Beevor
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. – Colin Powell
After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army. – Aung San Suu Kyi
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. – Alexander Graham Bell
I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division. – Charles B. Rangel
Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution. – Ahmed Zewail
The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone. – Bill Alexander
While I was filming ‘Kong’ – and I don’t play a very capable Army Ranger in ‘Kong’; I play a completely different character – but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie. – Corey Hawkins
After I spent my compulsory army service in the ‘top secret office’ of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. – Ada Yonath