Military Skill Quotes

The U.S. military is known the world over for its advanced technology as well as the prowess, skill, and dedication of its service members. When you grow up in the company of its leaders, as I did, you understand that this greatness is something that is cultivated.

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action in three seconds flat. Niko had never seen anything sexier in his life.

A great soldier might be a baby politician.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

I'm an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

Our servicemen and women are highly trained, highly skilled, and the most professional fighting force in the world.