Target Acquisition Quotes

In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

What do I feel when I shoot an enemy? Recoil.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

I think drones are a good tool to go after high-valued targets.

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit.

I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.

I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

It goes without saying that it is no good having a perfect setup, perfect grip and perfect golf swing if the whole thing is misaligned. It sounds obvious but many players simply do not spend enough time getting themselves on target.

Look, it's no longer about capacity, how many ships, how many air wings, how many battalions. It's about capability. If we dominate cyber space and know and can read the other guy's mail, and with a very accurate laser-guided munitions put it in this window or that window, it's not how much, it's knowing exactly where to pinpoint a target.

Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish.

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

When I throw a softball, there's no time to think about the motion of my arm. I just look at the first baseman's glove and react.

I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.

These [cruise] missiles are accurate, but they are only as useful as their targeting is precise.

I got my eye on you boy, and when I get my eye on something, it's like search and destroy.

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.

You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.

As far back as 2008, the Canadian Forces brass was explicit: drones with 'all-weather precision strike capabilities' were a 'requirement' for Canada's overseas operations.

I really should not need to spell this out, but one of the attributes of a successful sniper is that he makes no sound at all - nor, indeed, shouts out warnings!