Janis Karpinski Quotes

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

It can’t be any other than madness to commence hostilities before we have established resources on a sure plan for certain and effectual military supplies. Men in that case will not be wanting.

Have you already in your mind a plan wholly or partially formed? If you have, prosecute it without interference from me. If you have not, please inform me, so that I, incompetent as I may be, can try and assist you in the formation of some plan for the army.

The key to winning a battle is to not burden the general population with military expenses

There has never been a military commander in history who didn’t want more men for a longer time …

I am so restrained in all my military movements that it is impossible to undertake anything effectual

Our military plans for everything.

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

If you look at the question of expenditure in Iraq, you have got to start from the one fundamental truth: that every request that the military commanders made to us for equipment was answered. No request was ever turned down.

You can't have force structure without proper training, without proper equipment, without proper leadership, without proper funding to conduct exercises and perform maintenance.

Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.

The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

I think it would be a great challenge to work on a military game which featured a female lead character. Since female soldiers are now being allowed on the frontlines, we're actually in danger of reality overtaking games!

I had an opportunity to express my views, yes. I agreed with the approach which we took, namely, to make a distinction between the loss of life of the Chinese pilot and our military operations outside territorial waters or territorial limits.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.

We should never hesitate to use military force, and I will not, as president, in order to keep the American people safe. But we have to use our military wisely. And we did not use our military wisely in Iraq.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.