Bayonets Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The soldiers screamed…

— David Cook

“Another problem hampering the Marines was that the use of tanks in this theater of operations had a major disadvantage; a Sherman tank was…

— Charles River Editors

“The most convincing proof of the Americans’ successful rite of passage came from across the lines. The Germans had previously regarded the Americans as…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the army’s senior…

— Dennis Byrne

“The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make you strong. If the meek ever inherit the…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Jackson, since the inception of the brigade, stressed the importance of using the bayonet in battle as the majority of the C.S.A. Army had…

— Charles River Editors

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And…

— Simon Sinek

Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties…

— Lynn Montross

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there…

— Warren Christopher

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in…

— Kurt Student