Military Operation Quotes

#1. A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

Sun Tzu

#2. You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

John Abizaid

#3. The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

Wernher Von Braun

#4. The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage.

Rachel Caine

#5. Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

Stephen Colbert

#6. In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

Stephen Hadley

#7. War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

John F. Kerry

#8. Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there [in Crimea], but it was to ensure people's safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will. We did that. But it would not have been possible without the Crimeans' own strong resolution.

Vladimir Putin

#9. Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.

Menachem Begin

#10. The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#11. The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Ehud Olmert

#12. We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

David Hackworth

#13. Sometimes theft can be as simple and direct as a fist in an unsuspecting face, and sometimes it can be as complex as a military operation.

Michael McClung

#14. When treatment for health issues is conducted like a military operation, our body-minds become a battlefield.

Heidi DuPree

#15. So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

Sun Tzu

#16. The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

A. Ashley Straker

#17. The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.

Liz Trotta

#18. I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation.

Gordon Brown

#19. I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey

#21. Friendly fire was never friendly, and it was coming. Operation Stand-and-Watch was over. Did that mean Operation Bust-His-Balls was on deck?

Cristin Harber

#22. Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

Condoleezza Rice

#23. Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.

Tony Gaskins

#24. It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.

James Branch Cabell

#25. To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

Giulio Douhet

#26. Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

Curt Weldon

#27. Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

John Lithgow

#28. The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia). ... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.

Stan Goff

#29. But then she'd trained her sister from an early age that she would always make everything okay. Whatever Tessa asked, she gave. No questions asked. Shahara

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

John Eisenhower

#31. Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Healey

#32. I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Ryan Gosling