Warfare Quotes

“As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

“The world has always been at war, or rather parts of it. Peace is a utopian illusion, facilitated by a lack of media coverage in the past.”
― Abhaidev, Notes from the Edge of Sanity

“No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

“As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.”
― Wilfred Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen

“...how impossible it
is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you
couldn’t even imagine.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“When I went into the Army, I made up my mind that I was putting myself at the Army's disposal. I believe in the war. That doesn't mean I believe in the Army. I don't believe in any army. You don't expect justice out of an army, if you're a sensible, grown-up human being, you only expect victory. And if it comes to that, our Army is probably the most just one that ever existed. . . . I expected the Army to be corrupt, inefficient, cruel, wasteful, and it turned out to be all those things, just like all armies, only much less so than I thought before I got into it. It is much less corrupt, for example, than the German Army. Good for us. The victory we win will not be as good as it might be, if it were a different kind of army, but it will be the best kind of victory we can expect in this day and age, and I'm thankful for it.”
― Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions

“Thinking about operating at a quicker tempo - not just moving faster - than the adversary was a new concept in waging war. Generating a rapidly changing environment - that is, engaging in activity that is quick it is disorienting and appears uncertain or ambiguous to the enemy - inhibits the adversary's ability to adapt and causes confusion and disorder that, in turn, causes an adversary to overreact or underreact. Boyd closed the briefing by saying the message is that whoever can handle the quickest rate of change is the one who survives.”
― Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

“Understanding the OODA loop enables a commander to compress time - that is, the time between observing a situation and taking an action. A commander can use the temporal discrepancy (a form of fast transient) to select the least-expected action rather than what is predicted to be the most effective action. The enemy can also figure out what might be the most effective. To take the least-expected action disorients the enemy. It causes him to pause, wonder, to question.”
― Robert Coram, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

“Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance

“Wars are fought with weapons,
but they are won with intelligence.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The real warfare of mankind is eternal struggle
to earn higher rank in the pyramid of food chain.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“We have relearned since 9/11 the timeless lesson that we don’t always get to fight the wars for which we’re most prepared or most inclined, “Given that reality, we will need to maintain the full-spectrum capability that we have developed over this last decade of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.”
― David Petraeus

“As politicians know all too well, even a Government that does not represent the wishes of a people can count on their support once the nation is locked in conflict with an external foe.”
― Elisabeth Hoemberg, Thy People My People

“Swords, Guns and AI

Technology will take us far, far
and farther, until it dumps us
back where we came from, in the
caves, but of concrete ruins.

We will once again fight with
spears and axes, made of broken
bits of chips and circuit boards.
Silicon, lithium, gold, all will
be worthless, apes will barter
again with sheep and boars.

Yesterday's world was obsessed with swords,
today's world is obsessed with guns,
tomorrow's world will be obsessed with AI,
and it always ends up with death and destruction.

Day after tomorrow it'll be business as usual,
savage world will be back obsessing with fire,
then again with swords, then guns, and so on,
till the sky pours ashes and seas boil over.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Maps and diagrams can reveal a battle’s truth more clearly than pages of words.”
― Antonios Athenaeus

“Of course life is a battle. For it is in the battle that the warrior understands the sanctity of that for which they fight and the reality of what life would be like were that sanctity to be lost.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are humans not animals; the world has to choose between moral sanity and the law of jungle.”
― HAZEM ABDELMOWLA

“When you're a child, you have imaginary friends. But when you're an adult you have imaginary enemies.”
― Darkmatter2525

“They felt the utter uncertainty of war—the bone-marrow knowledge that death could come at any moment, and that intellect, strength, and wealth couldn’t save you when the sky fell.”
― Alexander Freed

“The stakes are too high to use the battleground as the training ground.”
― Olawale Daniel

“[Japońskie bombardowania] wywołały za to absolutną osobistą nienawiść, której nie zrozumie nikt, kto nie kulił się w piwnicy lub nie wciskał twarzy w ziemię, próbując uciec przed nadlatującymi bombowcami, na własne oczy nie widział matki szukającej oderwanej głowy syna i nie poczuł smrodu spalonych dziecięcych ciał.”
― Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing

“It's disgusting how some politicians keep lying while they keep targeting and killing innocent children.”
― HAZEM ABDELMOWLA

“A blinding light, the crack of wood, the weight of thunder. The sting of hail and the whistle of metal in the air. The melting of gravity and the splinter of bones. The taste of blood and smoke and the ring of death. (page 304)”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless vows

“There is no weapon like warfare.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“God's protection is our shield.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“From chariot horses in the ancient world, to Hannibal’s merciless exploitation of elephants to cross the Alps and confront the Roman Empire, animals have played a fundamental role in the long and murky history of human warfare. But it was not until the twentieth century that the military use of animals became distinctly sinister and bizarre. During the Second World War, the American army used kamikaze “tankdogs” to blow up German panzers. In their book A 'Higher Form of Killing', Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman describe how the dogs were taken away from their mothers as soon as they were weaned, and were only given food under the bellies of tanks. Once on the battlefield, the dogs were held on the verge of starvation, with explosives and a tall triggering antenna strapped to their backs. As the German panzers approached, the hungry animals were released. Running instinctively under the enemy tanks searching for food, the antenna would scrape along the metal belly, detonating the explosives and thus destroying both tank and dog.”
― William Johnson, The Rose-Tinted Menagerie

“What good is science that can't refuse to make bombs! What good is faith that can't refuse to hate!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Every war is friendly fire (Sonnet 3004-3006)

I mean think about this, someone back in the days actually thought, they ought to have a more convenient way to dispose of dissenters, so they designed the guillotine, and later in the modern days, the same kind of apes designed guns, for the same animal purpose, with the same cannibalistic mentality, and I use the term "modern" sarcastically.

And please, my child, do not go all hot and patriotic to say that weapons have their use, because guess what, every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones, let's call it the Naskarian Principle of Armament;

every weapon inadvertently ends up causing more harm than preventing it, guillotine took disproportionately more innocent lives than actually guilty ones in the old days, and today, guns claim more innocent lives than actual terrorists -

usually it's just one soldier killing another soldier, both driven by the same patriotic spirit, pulled like string puppets by warmongers masquerading as world leaders.

In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“I’m coming to get you,” he growls, his other hand sliding slowly along my back. “Cross the fucking border. I’ll be waiting on the other
side.”
“No…” I mutter, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand.
“If you don’t come out,” he says, his voice darkening, “I’ll go in. And let the fucking war begin. He’ll be dead before anyone can blink. Let the others take up arms if they have the guts.”
― Aella Blake, Darkash

“Tactics win the battles that start the war; strategy ends the war that shapes peace.”
― F.C. Quiles