Abby Martin
Abby Martin

It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.

Ajay Piramal
Ajay Piramal

We are disciples of Krishna, and we look at ourselves like Arjun in the battlefield.

Alfred M. Gray
Alfred M. Gray

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Allen Boyd
Allen Boyd

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.

Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

Chesty Puller
Chesty Puller

In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

Chris Fussell
Chris Fussell

As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'

Chris Fussell
Chris Fussell

The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.