Military Weakness Quotes

[Russia] has been haunted by its relative backwardness, particularly in the military and industrial spheres.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

I think under the leadership of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it's embarrassing for America.

Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Since the battle of Manassas an apathy seems to have rested upon our people. We ... have considered one Southerner as a match for five Yankees. We have thought that the Yankees would always take to their heels after a few rounds. But while these reverses have proved to us that our foes are not such cowards as we have heretofore taken them for, it has also disclosed the very disagreeable fact that our forces are not the invincible heroes which we thought them to be.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

[The army is] in a state of licentiousness which must render it formidable to everyone but the enemy.

We've allowed our military to decay, and we project weakness on the international stage.

Europe is an economic giant, a political dwarf, and a military worm.

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.

The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

Any diminishment of the government forces stationed here endangers the safety of the state, for the militia are not & cannot for some time be made efficient as the Want of Arms & munitions of War, are sources of great embarrassment.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.