General George S. Patton

War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct and ruthless man to wage war.

AJP Taylor

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a great war, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one (or to fight it on a limited scale)

General Omar Bradley to General Patton

I do this job because I am trained to do it; you do it because you love it.

Homer

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin

d) Saharanpur

Name this unique place famous for its intersection of soldiering and sports.

That one village, one family, one street gave India 14 Olympians, an unrivaled track record even today. Take a look at the haul:

14 Olympians – 15 medals (8 Gold, 1 Silver, 6 Bronze)

10 Asian Games players – 13 medals (4 Gold, 8 Silver, 1 Bronze)

5 Arjuna …

When India’s First Woman Photojournalist Documented India’s First Republic Day Parade

Homai Vyarawalla was India's first woman photojournalist.

a) Sarangpur

b) Sansarpur

c) Samastipur

The Time UK's Royal Navy Posted an Ad on LinkedIn to Recruit a Rear-Admiral

In December 2023, the UK’s Royal Navy was forced to advertise for a top job on social media in a move described as “utterly shameful” by military sources.

Navy chiefs posted the advertisement for the £150,000-a-year rear-admiral position on LinkedIn as it struggled to fill the role internally.

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

Duty, Honor, Country. These three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

A Major General ‘By Mistake’…

During the British raj in India, rulers of princely states eagerly sought honorary military ranks from the colonists. In one such instance in 1930, Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir was seeking promotion from the honorary rank of Colonel to Major General.

In the process, Lt Colonel G D …

Agreeing with the KGB ...

Did you hear the old Soviet joke where a KGB director asked one of his lieutenants what he thought of the government. The other nervously said "I agree with you, comrade", so the boss had him arrested.

When Graham Greene worked for the MI6

Graham Greene had continued working for British intelligence into his seventies.

When the South Korean Army Banned Friend by Paek Nam Nyong

Friend by Paek Nam Nyong (translated by Immanuel Kim, published by Columbia University Press) is the first English novel approved by North Korea’s regime. Published in 1988, it is a beloved classic there about characters caught up in marital strife and disappointed by their spouses, based on Paek Nam …

Bhutan is the only Asian country without formal diplomatic ties to China.

BH Liddell Hart

A professional soldier is rarely a professional strategist.

USJCS

Military strategy is the art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation to secure the objectives of national policy by the application of force, or threat of force.

Lt Gen Hubert Worthington

An Officer should be comely, spratly and above all else, confident in his own dress and bearing.

He should, where possible, eat a small piece of meat each morning with molasses and beans.

He should air himself gracefully when under fire and never place himself in a position …

Lieutenant General William Pagonis

Owning the facts is a prerequisite to leadership. But there are millions of technocrats out there with lots of facts in their quivers and little leadership potential. In many cases, what they are missing is empathy. No one is a leader who can’t put himself or herself in the …

BH Liddell Hart

{Strategy is} the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy.

When Sartre Got Conscripted

On September 20th, 1939, Jean-Paul Sartre was conscripted into the French Army.

Father and Son Commanding the Same Division

General George S. Patton followed his father in command of the 2nd Armoured Division of the US Army

Carl Sagan

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Served as Chief of Staff of Three Different Army Commands

Lt Gen HRS Mann has had the unique distinction of having served as the Chief of Staff of the Army's Central Command, Training Command and the Western Command, probably the only officer to do so.

General George S. Patton (to Rommel)

Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book.

Theodore Ropp

The most durable reason for reading military history is simply 'because it's fun'.

(Source Unknown)

Wellington would open his officers' calls with the statement that he expected them to be gentlemen and officers 'in that order'.

Sir John Winthrop Hackett

The military life, whether for sailor, soldier, or airman, is a good life. The human qualities it demands include fortitude, integrity, self-respect, personal loyalty to other persons, and the surrender of the advantage of the individual to the common good... This is good company. Anyone can spend his life …