The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in...

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our...

For me, 'Come and See' is, by a million miles, the best film about war that has ever been made. I would highly recommend, encourage and enforce anyone to watch it.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their...

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American strength in oil production was a decisive advantage for the Allies. Airplanes, ships, and tanks all ran on...

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not...

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that an' Chuck 'im out the brute. But it's 'Savior of his country' when the guns begin to shoot.

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

One soldier picked up a dead Argentine, supported the corpse's weight underneath his arm, put a cigarette in the dead man's mouth, then one in his own. He then held a lighter under the corpse's...

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war. I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg. I like aggressive war. I like defensive war. I like sieges. I like breaking through. I like withdrawing. I like...

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

What is war?' I asked. Oh, it's a messy, stupid business,' he said, 'Two sides wave flags and beat drums and shoot one another dead. It always begins this way, making speeches, talking about rights,...

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Fire's tears were real now, and there was no helping them, for there was no time. Everything was moving too fast. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face...

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

The entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such...

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.

Thirty paces, twenty, and you can see the eyes of the men who will try to kill you, and see the spear - blades, and the instinct is to stop, to straighten the shields. We cringe from battle, fear...

No one knew how to end it. The war had settled into unbearable, unwinnable battles. It had reached a point where there were no more victories, only death.

War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs.