Word of Wisdom 2

“There is no I in team”
- Warrant Officer Mike Purdy, SEALS
Source: The Real Team; Richard Marcinko

“Together everybody achieve more”
- Master Chief Albert J. Tremblay, SEALS
Source: The Real Team; Richard Marcinko


“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good man to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it"
- Anonymous

“There will be no retreat”
- President Gorge W. Bush
Source: The Sun 28.8.03


“To us, deterrence is the best posture to adopt given the strategic uncertainties in the region and beyond “
- Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak (Malaysia Minister of Defense)
Source: Asian Defense Journal, June 1995

“ ……the need for intelligence to support the government foreign, defense and trade policies has, if anything, increased over recent year “
- Jim Bolger , New Zealand Prime Minister
Source: Asian Defense Journal, Sept 1997. Ms 75.

“There is no question that you have to have the right partner. They have to be complementary. If one is good at navigating, the other should be good at planning. If both are good at navigating, then you’ll find yourself in trouble “
- David Dean
Source: The Sun, September 9, 2003

“There is no such thing as the United Nation. There is an international community that can be lead by one real power left in the world, and that is the United States “
- John Bolton, US Undersecretary of State
Source: The Grand Strategy of the American Empire by Alex Callinicos
Socialist Review, autumn 2003


“There is never enough time to do everything that needs to be done, but there’s always enough time to do what is important”
- Brian Tracy

“The military occupation doesn’t work. All it does is cause more terror”
- Chris Eubank (former British world boxing champion)


“The war will end when new maps have been drawn and the borders between the three communities defined.”
- General Radovan Karadzic of Serbia
Source: Raids July 1992

“There is a thin line between success and failure, but we have talent to win it.”
- Tony Adam
Source: Match Oct9, 1999

“Those people who have the industrial power and the power of invention and science will be able to defeat all others.”
- Leo Amery
Source: The Rise and fall of the Great Powers: Economic change & military conflict from 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy.

“Those who do not advance go backwards and who goes back goes under.”
- Monsieur Darcy
Source: The Rise and fall of the Great Powers: Economic change & military
Conflict from 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy.

“The rise and fall of the Empire depends upon this war. Every man will do his utmost to accomplish the mission.”
- Japan Combined Fleet Operational Order No. 13. Dec 7, 1941.
Source: The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans, Ed. By Donald M Goldstein & K V Dillon.


“To attain these worthy aims, we have endeavored to improve our military force, which are the protection of our state, so that our troops may consist of well drilled men, maintained in perfect order and discipline.”
- Peter the Great
Source: The Human Record: Source of Global History. By AJ Andrea & JH Overfield.[1]

End Note
[1] Andrea, Alfred J. The Human Record: Source of Global History. 3rd Edition/ Vol. II – since 1500. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. p 172

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