The United States is NATO’s leading military power, and President Barack Obama has required NATO to align behind a doctrine that has amounted to the most disastrous American foreign-policy debacle since Vietnam. – Terry Glavin
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting – in Iraq or Afghanistan – certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. – Solomon Ortiz
I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced. – Tom Cotton
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. – Tommy Franks
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor. – Scilla Elworthy
Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy. – Tom Cotton
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration. – Steve Buyer
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore. – Samantha Power
In the military, I learned that ‘leadership’ means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments. – Tulsi Gabbard
I don’t think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. – William Hague
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. – Tariq Ali
Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals. – Stephen Kinzer
The president’s very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there’s only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that’s the U.S. military. – Warren Rudman
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. – William Kirby
The United States – you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites. – Winona LaDuke
Years at sea probably explains why I’m single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices. – Sarah West
The state of Israel, and a government under me, will make it a strategic objective to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza. The means for doing this should be military, economic, and diplomatic. – Tzipi Livni
With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. – Tim O’Brien
The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys. – Thomas P.M. Barnett
When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school – but I’d take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes. – William Bell
Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? – Ted Cruz
I was in Iraq in the worst period, 2006, but from 2006 to 2008, and especially through 2011, the American military and the government of Iraq made huge strides in making that country a source of stability with a relatively representative government that was seeking pluralistic engagement from all the factions within the government. – Tom Cotton
What I’ve noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they’re using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them. – Taya Kyle
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. – Samantha Power
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. – Vladimir Putin
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I’ve always been a gadget man. – Stephen Sondheim
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. – Sarah Parcak
The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts. – Saxby Chambliss
