#military operation

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#government #military operations #operations #opposition #supported

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#israel #israeli #lebanon #many #military

It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#american military #bring #death #failure #hard

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#complete #desire #finish #forces #halt

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy. ↗

— David Hackworth

#detail #enemy #every #hence #kind

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#amendment #ban #coverage #defense #department

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. ↗

— John Abizaid

#i #i do #know #military #military operation

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#country #difficult #i #just #military

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. ↗

— John Abizaid

#areas #border #conducting #correct #military

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#anything #been #conscience #country #direction