War Quote by Efraim Karsh

“The implications of this speech were not long in coming. On 22 September, emulating the brilliant Israeli gambit of the Six Day War in…

— Efraim Karsh

“In truth, warfare has changed very little since our great-great-grandfathers killed each other at places like Gettysburg, the Somme, Normandy, or Baghdad. It’s still…

— Marko Kloos

“The slow, mismanaged arrival of armored vehicles and bulletproof plates for flak vests was only the most conspicuous demonstration of how the Iraq War,…

— George Packer

“Army had solicited ideas for a better armored vehicle—to sell to the Iraqis, not for U.S. use.”

— Robert M. Gates

“By the end of 2004, U.S. operations in Iraq had been rough enough to antagonize the Sunni population without imposing the draconian methods armies…

— Bing West

In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the…

— Tina Fey

Despite the failure of October 7th, from the moment the war broke out, the IDF has made extraordinary achievements. It is the direct result…

— Yoav Gallant

“Yet, despite their overwhelming superiority in firepower and their resort to chemical weapons, the Iraqi forces failed to retake Fao, with some 10,000 Iraqis…

— Efraim Karsh

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The insurgency began and you missed it.

— REM

“A popular aphorism soon circulated among frontline troops: “Never were so few commanded by so many from so far.” Asked why the Germans failed…

— Rick Atkinson

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches…

— Paul von Hindenburg