Field Operations Quotes



From the beginning, the issue of whether the country should have a standing army or depend on the militia and the citizen soldier has been controversial. There is a , romantic American myth about the Militiamen in Colonial and Revolutionary America—the citizen soldiers who would leave their farms and rise to the military necessity of the day. However, not only were the militia very hard to muster to duty, but most actually didn’t own or have experience with firearms, and the prevailing opinion of knowledgeable military leaders from George Washington on down was that the militia were not very good soldiers. See {613015}, {613016}, {613022}, {613027}, {621987}, {621988}, {613030}, {613033}, & {613056}


He was referring to United Nations’s humanitarian staff in conflict zones. In this case it was the genocide in Darfur in the Sudan. The perpetrators of the genocide had little compunction to attack UN staff—especially those who might try and protect the victims. The UN workers as well as other organization’s humanitarian staff have suffered great casualties in various conflict zones ranging from Iraq to Darfur.