11 quotes found
“War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.”
“The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.”
“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)”
“The problem with fear, though, is that it isnt any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomyanxiety, dread, panic, forebodingand you could be braced for one form and completely fall apart facing another.”
“The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one anothers lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The w...”
“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war...”
“Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only m...”
“...much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)”
“Stripped to its essence, combat is a series of quick decisions and rather precise actions carried out in concert with ten or twelve other men. In that sense its much more like football than, say, l...”
“The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dea...”
“The cowards fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resou...”
