The Good Old Days Are

The Tactics...no, Amateurs Discuss Tactics,.... Professional Soldiers Study Logistics.

Back In Pre-revolutionary America Cruel And Unusual Punishment Meant The Rack And Burning At The Stake... In More Recent Rulings It Has Been Taken To Mean The Absence Of Cable Television And Denial Of Sex-change Operations, Or Just Overcrowding In The Prisons.

There Is More To Military Units Than Hardware. There Is The Character Of The Unit's Personnel: Their Strengths, Experience, And Knowledge, Their Ability To Get Along And Work Together Amid The Horrors Of The Battlefield. There Is An Almost Undefinable Quality. That Quality Is The Marine Corps' Secret Weapon. Their Edge. That Quality Is Their Ethos.

There Are Only Two Ways We Can Be Beaten: We Die Or We Give Up. And We're Not Giving Up.

Things Rarely Happen For A Single Reason. Even The Cleverest And Most Skilled Manipulators Recognize That Their Real Art Lies In Making Use Of That Which They Cannot Predict.