Lovell Rousseau quotes

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
-- Lovell Rousseau

#Military #War #Troops

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.