"to kill people and break things" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>From Newsbank:
"Writer who's also Reservist ready to serve if summoned"
The Tampa Tribune - February 10, 1991 p. 19
Author: LANCE VAN AUKEN, Tribune Staff Writer
"The purpose of an Army in peacetime is to maintain the peace. In war,
its purpose is to kill people and break things."

>From Google Books:
"Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1981: Hearings Before a
Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of
Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session "  Gov Printing
Office 1980

[Testimony]
"Mr. SEWELL.  Any [deleted] explosion is going to create [deleted] of
damage and knock down buildings and kill people and break things out to
a given range."

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> 1993 USENET: Somolia - soc.history (Oct.
> 13)[http://groups.google.com/group=
> /soc.history/msg/afdaa0ab181eed1c]: The purpose of the
> military is to kill = people and break things (I know that's
> what Rush says - he's quoting somebo= dy but I don't know
> who.) =A0 I must have=A0heard this=A0quote two dozen times on
> TV (my guess is only si= nce 2001) and maybe even=A0seen a
> bumper sticker.
> =A0
> So it's a proverb. Almost always pro-=A0killing and breaking.
> =A0
> JL=0A=0A=0A
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