As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.
Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.
Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.
My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base.
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-America...
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
