Go To War With The Army You Have Quotes

#1. You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.

Avi Steinberg

#3. I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Dave Brubeck

#4. There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again ... You can look him straight in the eye and say, Son your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son of a Goddamned Bitch named Georgie Patton.

George S. Patton Jr.

#5. When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act.

Pietro Badoglio

#6. Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Bill Watterson

#8. Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

David Bellavia

#9. War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Edward Abbey

#10. It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Lloyd Alexander

#11. If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

Robert E. Haebel

#12. War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

#13. A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you'll ever see.

Christian Cameron

#14. The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

George C. Marshall

#15. It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

Moshe Dayan

#16. To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

Confucius