Joseph Stalin Quotes

History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they've become much weaker; (3) we've become much stronger; and (4) now we're playing for keeps.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

We won't always have the strongest military.

America must always be the world's paramount military power

In the history of warfare, it has generally been the case that military superiority lies with the wealthiest states and those with the most developed administrations.

I'm a military history buff.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.

We will be substantially upgrading all of our military - all of our military. Offensive, defensive, everything. Bigger and better and stronger than ever before. And hopefully, we'll never have to use it. But nobody is going to mess with us, folks. Nobody.

Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.

I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way, by the way. Every other way.

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

Our military is a disaster.

The object of war is to survive it.

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.