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- Nov 07, 2020
War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Missile strikes - or any other such action - against a sovereign nation is an act of war.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that the president has not yet demonstrated why military action is in our best interest, given that the administration will not be constrained to keep boots off the ground, and given that there is no clear end-game, I am against the president's resolution to go to war in Syria.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Sisters of War,' I got to do one of my own stunts. Running out of the building because the Japanese were firing, with all these little spark plugs are going off, looking like explosions and bullets flying down. That was really fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020