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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance
Myself
Army
Culture
Heroes
Doubt
White
Military
Neighbours
Could
Had
Name
Like
George
Officer
American
Modern
Loved
Patton
Figure
Working-Class
Even
The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions that reveal themselves in our voting.
J. D. Vance
War
World
Voting
Military
Our
Finest
Divisions
Also
Force
Reveal
Geographic
Cultural
After
Transition
Themselves
Created
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Professional
Reinforced
If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
Jack Keane
Military
Only
Deterrent
Also
Becomes
Intent
Then
Use
Therefore
Credible
Needed
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
Jack Schwartz
War
Survival
Genocide
Nation
Own
Military
Arab
Foes
Citizens
Diplomatic
Practicing
Terrorist
Array
Israel
Existence
Sustaining
Against
Now
Defending
The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
Jack Schwartz
Will
Situation
Military
Guerrilla
Gaza
Security
Hopefully
Security Measures
Involves
Occupation
Island
West
West Bank
End
Northern
Bank
Urban
Warfare
Measures
British
The experience in Iraq has taken away the essential trust which political leaders need before embarking on military action. It was meant to be about weapons of mass destruction rather than regime change. Unfortunately, the nation was misled, and secret service information was misused.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Service
Change
Trust
Experience
Destruction
Political
Nation
Before
Action
Military
Secret
Embarking
Weapons
About
Rather
Taken
Misled
Leaders
Mass
Mass Destruction
Misused
Iraq
Political Leaders
Than
Essential
Information
Unfortunately
Which
Regime
Meant
Meant To Be
Military Action
Away
Need
Everywhere I go, people embrace me and treat me like a national hero. The people in the streets are asking for the return of the military. They ask, 'When are you coming back?'
Jair Bolsonaro
Me
You
People
Treat
Hero
National
Military
Back
Everywhere
Embrace
Like
Return
Coming
Go
Ask
Asking
Streets
If one day the military comes to power, it will be through a vote.
Jair Bolsonaro
Day
Vote
Will
Power
Military
One Day
Through
My military experience... I can recall so many different emotions from that.
Jake McLaughlin
Experience
Emotions
Military
Different
Different Emotions
Many
Recall
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani
Needs
You
Army
Courage
Sacrifice
Military
Find
Morale
Coup
Without
I always connected renting a car with being an adult. If you think about it, it's the last frontier of your youth. You can join the military at 18, drink when you're 21, but you can't rent a car.
Jaleel White
You
Youth
Car
Military
Think
About
Drink
Join
Adult
Always
Rent
Renting
Frontier
Being
Your
Connected
Last
Mr. Trump had no political or military experience, the traditional routes to high political office. Virtually his only qualification was his business career, and a checkered one at that, considering his own brush with personal bankruptcy.
James B. Stewart
Business
Experience
Political
Own
Military
Virtually
Considering
High
Only
Brush
Had
Qualification
Traditional
His
Trump
Office
Personal
Bankruptcy
Business Career
Routes
Career
The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities.
James Clapper
Intelligence
Opportunities
Looking
Military
Gathering
Air
Bent
Russians
Facilities
Both
Well
Equipment
Western
Sell
Western Hemisphere
Expand
Establishing
Hemisphere
Cooperation
Bases
Presence
The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.
James Comey
Home
Together
Intelligence
Law
National
Military
Address
Threat
Law Enforcement
Threats
Both
Joint
Investigations
Investigative
Executive
Force
Built
Overseas
Up
Task
Task Force
Substantial
Expertise
Which
Agencies
Agent
Enforcement
Cyber
Homeland
Coordinate
Serve
Here
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
James F. Byrnes
Struggle
Peace
People
World
Power
Partner
Become
Military
World Peace
East
Between
West
German
German People
Germany
Interest
Should
Pawn
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
James G. Stavridis
Success
You
Balance
People
Practice
Military
Way
Civil
Counter
Protect
Insurgency
Effective
Train
Effort
Get
Communications
Your
Strategic
Right
After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.
James G. Stavridis
Time
People
Big
Young
Military
Further
Jobs
My Time
Mentor
Part
Course
Educate
Were
Continue
Years
Officer
Big Part
Senior
Being
Wanted
After
Which
Young People
Transition
Uniform
Navy
Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.
James G. Stavridis
Day
Every Day
Intelligence
Key
Military
Every
Worldwide
Critical
Systems
Visualization
Data
Delivery
Mission
Role
Used
Communities
Play
I knew early I wanted to follow my father into the military. He did a full 30-year career and retired as a full colonel in the Marines after graduating from Allentown H.S. and later from Cornell University.
James G. Stavridis
Father
Military
Marines
Later
Follow
Colonel
He
Knew
Retired
Did
Graduating
Wanted
After
Full
Early
Career
University
In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.
Jan Schakowsky
Conflict
Military
Our
States
Wear
Badge
Part
Particular
Always
Command
Accountable
Official
Personnel
Held
Who
Actions
United
United States
Zone
Need
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
Jane Mayer
Better
Face
Military
Think
Extreme
Tried
Some
About
Put
Abuse
Read
Versions
Very
Trying
Hard
Rid
Now
Actually
Right
Guantanamo
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
Janine di Giovanni
War
Good
You
People
Writing
Military
Strategy
Society
Destroys
About
Civilians
Write
Always
How
Tanks
Effect
Reporter
Lives
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Janis Karpinski
War
Intelligence
Whatever
Military
Find
Cost
Saddam
However
Goal
Get
Going
Stop
Information
Used
Military Intelligence
Lives
Save
There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
Janis Karpinski
Home
Police
Finished
Military
Soldiers
Over
Mission
Operations
Because
Ready
Go
Go Home
Getting
Military Police
Brigade
I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.
Janis Karpinski
Prison
Military
Criminal
Would
Would-Be
Running
Could
Had
Knew
Support
Operations
How
Evaluate
Many
Brigade
Assigned
Needed
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
Janis Karpinski
Alone
Day
Intelligence
Protection
Prison
Military
Soldiers
Battalion
Ghraib
Entire
Had
Abu
Force
Arrive
Command
Just
After
Transferred
Military Intelligence
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