Military Dependence Quotes

We do not need Pakistan to win our war in Afghanistan, but as long as we say that we do, the Pakistanis will play us like a bad fiddle.

The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at the same time they are the main supply of our army for more than sixty years, so our army depends on the Russian support in different military domains.

In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

I expect to be told that the militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the national defense. This doctrine, in substance, had like to have lost us our independence.... The facts which, from our own experience, forbid a reliance of this kind, are too recent to permit us to be dupes of such a suggestion

The sky does not rest more firmly on the shoulders of Atlas than the Prussian State does on the Prussian army.

Our European allies need to be able to buy our fuel, or they will fall to enemy domination.

The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.

The underlying reality of imperial power is that it always depends upon the army.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.