John Terraine famous quotes

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The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army
-- John Terraine

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
-- John Terraine

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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
What one can be, one must be!
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.
Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'Ã©tendre la mÃ©fiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent Ã l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).
"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."

John Terraine famous quotes

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