Military Resources Quotes

What we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars. I've talked to a lot of the generals, a lot of our advanced people. And believe me, if we gave them the mission, which is what the commander-in-chief does, they would be able to carry it out.

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

My dear McClellan: If you don't want to use the Army I should like to borrow it for a while.

The military strength and resources of the State must be reserved for its own defense and protection exclusively …

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

There's a disconnect there between - you're telling me this [war in Iraq] is fight of our generation, and you're going to increase troops by 10 percent. And that's gonna do it. I'm sure what [George W.Bush] would like to do is send 400,000 more troops there, but he can't, because he doesn't have them.

NDAA should be about providing critical funding for our troops, not debating immigration policy.

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

When I first deployed as a military intelligence officer my resources were a map, a grease pencil and two corporals.

This is a hard country to defend.

As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

Infantry, Artillery, Aviation--all that we have--are yours to dispose of as you will.... I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.

It is necessarily requisite to the peoples defense, that they be fore-armed. Now to be fore-armed is to be furnished with Soldiers, Armies, Ships, Forts and Monies, before the danger be instant; for the listing of Soldiers, and taking up of Arms after a blow is given, is too late at least, if not impossible.

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

The UN has no troops. For peacekeeping we have to borrow troops from the member nations. Sometimes they give us troops; sometimes not.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.