Ryan Zinke Quotes

If you don't stay up with technology, you're gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

Warfare evolves. It changes as a result of technology. It changes as the culture changes.

Our military men placed too much weight on spirit and forgot about science.

The U.S. public is more likely to sour on a conflict when it sees the military losing blood, not treasure. So to keep up our staying power, our skill in hunting and killing our foes has to be matched by our care in concealing and protecting our troops. Three particularly obvious requirements are body armor, mine-resistant vehicles, and telescopic and night sights for every weapon. But these things are expensive for a military that has historically been enamored of big-ticket items such as fighter planes, ships and missiles.

We are fortunate to have witnessed this remarkable event which is but a foretaste of a complete revolution in warfare.

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.

Honestly, I'm not so much of a tech guy.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.

Sara is about as tech-savvy as your grandma.

I think artificial intelligence will likely change the character of warfare, and I believe whoever masters it first will dominate on the battlefield for many, many, many years.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.

Warfare has changed so dramatically.