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Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

~Bill Shuster

Topics: Against American Battlefield Bay Been Caught Criminals Down Elsewhere Fighting Guantanamo Held Just Many Military Move Require Shutting Them Troops Vicious Would

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Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Topics: Battlefield Battles Brilliant Faith Great Guided Him His Infinite Justice Life Others Plays Poetic Resources Sense Shakespeare Sublime Sunshine Times Violent Were World

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The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

~Brandon Webb

Topics: Battlefield Craft Highly His Like Practicing Skilled Surgeon

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As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

~Charles B. Rangel

Topics: Also Battlefield Believe Combat Defending Democracy Encountered Firsthand Know Satisfaction Strongly Trauma Veteran You I Can

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In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

~Chesty Puller

Topics: Also Battlefield Buddy Command Corps Down Fellow Going He Him Lead Marine Marine Corps Officer Only Prepare Properly Support Then Train You Your Yourself

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As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'

~Chris Fussell

Topics: Battlefield Bureaucratic Certain Certain Point Doing Execution Ground Implementation Job Move Multiple Operations Out Person Point Realize Really Side Sort Structure Traditional Units Up Well Which You

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The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.

~Chris Fussell

Topics: Age Battlefield Information Information Age Insufficient Organizational Reality Simply Speed System Taught Us

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While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

~Christen Press

Topics: Battlefield Definitely Elite Exist Know Land Restlessness While

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I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

~Christopher Shays

Topics: Bad Battlefield Business Come Die Health Home Just Kind Nature Our Prematurely Soldiers Some Think I Think

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Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

~Colin Powell

Topics: About Avoid Battlefield Career Department Even Fight Finding Importance Learned More Must Only Peace Plenty Prevent State State Department Throughout War Wars

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