Quotes about Combat Capability

Arthur Desmond

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Philip Hammond

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.

John M. McHugh

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

James T. Walsh

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

Ebenezer Huntington

As soldiers the militia are not worth their rations

There is a , romantic American myth about the Militiamen in Colonial and Revolutionary America—the citizen soldiers who would leave their farms and rise to the military necessity of the day. However, not only were the militia very hard to muster to duty, but most actually didn’t own or have experience with firearms, and the prevailing opinion of knowledgeable military leaders from George Washington on down was that the militia were not very good soldiers. See {613015}, {613016}, {613022}, {613027}, {621987}, {621988}, {613030}, {613033}, & {613056}

Charlie Sheen

I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground.

Jim Mattis

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.

MJ Hegar

I've seen men and women who were fit for combat that I wanted to fight beside, and men and women who I really wouldn't want to go back into combat with. It really doesn't have anything to do with gender.

Ruth Westheimer

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw hand grenades.

Richard Russo

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

Combat Capability Quotes