#world war i

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#armed services #committee #help #i #ii

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#asset #complemented #ever #every #greatest

World War II was the last government program that really worked. ↗

— George Will

#government #government program #ii #last #program

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#advanced technology #after #allowing #architecture #buildings

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#bad #because #chemical #chemicals #died

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#assume #because #been #began #british

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#any #bullets #deficit #federal #followed

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#aggression #america #army #attack #demonstrates

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#ii #nine #pilot #stand #war

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #cows #during #even #grew