Tactical Operations Quotes

I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

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

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

Special-purpose dogs have been a critical component for police and military work in the current war on terror. These dogs are some of the bravest animals on the planet.

The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.

Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.

I think military is a very special thing.

My momma used to kick in the door like SWAT!

As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever.

Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

The biggest problem I have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, we have Mosul. They think a lot of the ISIS leaders are in Mosul. So we have announcements coming out of Washington and coming out of Iraq, we will be attacking Mosul in three weeks or four weeks. Well, all of these bad leaders from ISIS are leaving Mosul. Why can't they do it quietly?

We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?

I was on the SWAT team in the FBI, and I had always wanted to be in SWAT.

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.

Our magnificent cadre of military officers have the kind of performance at military procurement as our magnificent cadre of business executives would have if they did the fighting—terrible!

Unconventional warfare needs to remain the heart and soul of U.S. Special Operations Command and component commands.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.