Military Cost Quotes

Unless Iran’s leadership believes that the costs of building a nuclear weapon will be greater than the benefit those weapons will provide, the Islamic Republic will become a nuclear-armed state.

The cost of deploying one U. S. soldier is the equivalent to the cost of deploying 70 Afghan soldiers.

War is not popular politically because there is always a cost—a cost in people and a cost in money.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

No state, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Constantinople is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.

Displaying weapons systems and threatening to use them can prove more cost-efficient than their actual use. But cyber-weapons are hard to brandish.

We can improve the military at less cost and with increased capability. It's not acceptable to keep investing in structure when we would be wiser to invest in dominating the new warfare domain of cyberspace.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

We disarm ourselves by making weapons so expensive.

Among the many reasons why it’s a bad idea to try and contain a nuclear Iran is that containment entails two things most Americans don’t like: long term effort and high cost

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

It's expensive to police the world.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.