Military Operation Quotes

Our landings … have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops …. The troops, the air, and the navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

We have not had a man wounded, and we have sustained no material damage to our hull or rigging.

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

An operation that kills 5 insurgents is counterproductive if the collateral damage or the creation of blood feuds leads to the recruitment of 50 more.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.

As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

The Agency became so wrapped up in the military operation that it failed to appraise the chances of success realistically. Furthermore, it failed to keep the national policymakers adequately and realistically informed of the conditions considered essential for success.

Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that didn't work, U.S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban boy was inside the house.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

Right after the Six Day War, Arafat launched a series of guerrilla operations from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Acting on a tip, Israeli soldiers stormed the house where he was based, minutes too late. They found his food still warm on the table.

I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.

It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.

From a military point of view it was a complete success

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Yesterday, the Senate voted to approve President Clinton's decision to send troops to Bosnia. And they voted to change the name of that mission to "Operation Forget About Whitewater".

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed