If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans. – Omar Bongo
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn’t really affect it. – Robert D. Kaplan
My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They’re excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources. – Peter Landesman
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I’m not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it’s not clear to me that it’s a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He’s not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world. – Pat Toomey
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we’re training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights. – Otto Schily
When President Obama took office, I was transitioning out of the military and just seeing that he was taking the country in a direction that I didn’t think was consistent with the Founding Fathers and with our constitutional roots. – Ron DeSantis
President Reagan was concerned – deeply concerned, emotionally concerned – with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy. – Robert McFarlane
We’re quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers. – Rob Simmons
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. – Richard Perle
When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames. – Pierce Brown
Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general. – Robert Shea
I always wanted to go into the military or something like that – my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines. – RJ Mitte
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases. – Rick Renzi
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them – part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public. – Rick Perlstein
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn’t become an auxiliary police force. – Otto Schily
Republicans traditionally say, ‘oh, we’ll cut domestic spending, but we won’t touch the military.’ The liberals – the ones who are good – will say, ‘oh, we’ll cut the military, but we won’t cut domestic spending.’ – Rand Paul
The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God’s name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel’s ‘miraculous’ military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion’s side. – Rick Perlstein
There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations. – Oliver Tambo
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States. – Oliver North
We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. – Paul Cellucci
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have. – Sebastian Junger
We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. – Ronald Reagan
Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won’t use the word ‘combat’ to avoid being painted as a crusader. – Paolo Gentiloni
It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. – Pepe Eliaschev