Quoted in "Timoshenko: Marshal of the Red Army" - Page 130 - by Walter Mehring - 1942
“We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate."”
At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict — a false conflict — between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part.
In Union There Is Strength (2020)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
James Mattis 24
26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United… 1950Related quotes
A Path to Freedom (2010), p. 64
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 351
92nd Street Y Cultural Center (2007)
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“Britain must now take our hand of friendship or reject it. I do not believe it will be rejected.”