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An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
Operations] that previously only Tier One Special Mission Units would be doing.
That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.
TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war ...
with a cluster of other servants.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Duty were our games.
A demonic horde. Upended sacks of beans. A hundred broken rosaries. There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy-two thousand pounds of explosives.
Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters.
My bedroom's like an armoury.
On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.
They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.
Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics.
After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.
-( ... ) There's towns, Urb. An' the closer we get t'Letheras, the more of them. Wha's in towns, Urb? Taverns. Bars. So, we're not takin' a straight, pre-dic-table route.
- We're invading Lether from tavern to tavern?
- Aye.
Trackers and hunters sworn to deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, branch and bole.
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I'd missed my buddies!
The Warrior Elite,
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
Find the enemy. Don't let the enemy find you. Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance! Reconnaissance!
I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
Slay like the knights of the Round Table
we arrived at the army's main encampment all
I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.
commotion and flurry.
Start with scout locations first.
learned paupers." "It
Always Blitzkrieg your enemies.
Gear up, Warrior Princess. We've got some adventuring to do.
the remnants of wars
I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
anchorages. As the war progressed, the advanced
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes
Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
This is the continuation of the Clash of Clans
Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
An assortment of soldiers and servants hurried about, finishing their duties for the day, or beginning their duties for the night, or possibly just looking busy to avoid being given additional duties.
Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.
We're on a mission from Glod.
If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.
Troll - in the dungeons - thought you ought to know.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
We watched the field exercises first and then sat in on a class by. Shafi Khan on classic attack formations. It was a lucid talk with ample diagrams and case-studies.
We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.
We have regiments as innumerable as the sands ... And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.
Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.
Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything
puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting
Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.
Lupa and her wolves are trying to slow them down, but this force is too strong even for them. The enemy will be here soon - by the Feast of Fortuna
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle.
I don't believe in prolonging agonies," said Oser. "Rather than watch you enspell the rest of my fleet man by man - while I still possess a fleet to offer - I understand the Dendarii Mercenaries are looking for recruits." It
team had joined the FOB at Hastings: a small village outside Freetown, a location chosen to maintain a low
Launches usually moved into the armies together,
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
I'm going to call in old debts and promises. To raise an army of assassins and thieves and exiles and commoners.
Build castles in the air.
Cheat, defeat, repeat.
There was an inexhaustible source of clouds in some land far to the north. Decisive people, minds fixed on the task, clothed in thick, gray uniforms, working silently from morning to night to make clouds, like bees make honey, spiders make webs, and war makes widows.
Riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago, and with only a very sketchy idea of the problems of administering Imperial
Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog!
You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.
And kitchens and roust out everyone you find. Malo, do the same with the maester's tower and the armory. Ser Brendel, the stables, sept, and barracks. Bring them out into the yard, and try not to kill anyone
In the thirteenth century the Mongol armies perfected the art of the blitzkrieg with nothing more than shaggy ponies at their disposal.
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory ...
N the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds (20) In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol. The
The war drops its question mark. Memos are distributed. The collections must be protected. A small cadre of couriers has begun moving things to country estates. Locks and keys are in greater demand than ever.
I recruit hungry kids who love the game and want to get better and feel they have more questions than answers
They had me taking the fall for the raid, Mr. Crawford. For Evelda Drumgo's death, all of it. They were like hyenas and then suddenly it stopped and they slunk away. Something drove them off." "Maybe you have an angel, Starling." "Maybe I do. What did it cost you, Mr. Crawford?
Their numbers swell like viruses until they madden someone with a large army.
There are forces.
Armies are not only for offensives.
We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.
Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.
For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.
I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.
From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For
Unity! Duty! And destiny!
Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry
" Assault formation!
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
In private I observed that once in every generation, without fail, there is an episode of hysteria about the barbarians ... These dreams are the consequence of too much ease. Show me the barbarian army and I will believe.
The Winter Shifter army rushed toward their opponents at full speed. A unified roar thundered over the field.
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.
Still like the Fortresses shakes?
The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.
Brys, how big do you want to make your escort?"
"Two brigades and two battalions, sire."
"Is that reasonable?" Tehol asked, looking around.
"I have no idea," Janath replied. "Bugg?"
"I'm no general, my Queen."
"We need an expert opinion, then," said Tehol. "Brys?
There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent. Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result.
The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
invasion by night