#military force

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#cold #cold war #cultural #economic #emerging

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#avoid #away #believe #better #force

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations. ↗

— Trent Lott

#backbone #comprise #force #generations #greatest

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#aspirations #attack #believe #capability #dealing

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. ↗

— Richard Perle

#external #forces #internal #justify #military

I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#build #countries #experience #forces #had

We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#believe #comes #complicated #effort #every

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places. ↗

— Warren Rudman

#been #better #centers #community #could

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#against #american #american military #amnesty #civilians

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force. ↗

— Lord North

#business #five #force #four #frigates