War : (44)

" With the war and everything that’s going on, unless you’re Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway! " - Robbie Williams

" In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun. " - Nostradamus

" Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. " - James Buchan

" Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel. " - Barton Gellman

" Put simply, we are still at war with radical Islamic groups and an ideological movement that can’t be ignored nor wished away. " - Michael T. Flynn

" People ask me about ‘The Hurt Locker’ a lot, and it’s an incredible piece of filmmaking – as are ‘Band of Brothers’ and ‘Platoon’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Apocalypse Now.’ But they’re not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood’s idea of war. " - Sebastian Junger

" I’ve been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don’t think there is anything. " - Phil Klay

" The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire. " - Michael Hastings

" ‘Black Hawk Down’ has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere. " - Elvis Mitchell

" I think Syria is now the training ground for the world… These rebel forces are more of a threat than anything. " - Michael McCaul