“gradually upgrade weapons and other equipment and improve the defense capabilities and combat effectiveness of the army under modern technical and especially high-tech conditions.”
Li Peng
“What is the point of the army without weapons? ... Korean government should concentrate on arming itself for national defense rather than collecting young men.”
John Kim
“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.”
Oswald Spengler
“It's not going to be D.C.'s decision. The Department of Defense has to sign off. The Army has to sign off. But the community can have a major impact on how this plan is shaped.”
Tim Ford
“We are very much concerned about the Taiwan issue. The army must improve its capability in defense and dealing with emergencies.”
Yang Xuhua
“We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.”
James Talent
“We also need to appropriately increase funds for building armaments and raise the defense and combat capability of the army.”
Jiang Enzhu
