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Svante Wendel's Unofficial Royal Swedish Army page - Info and pictures, especially armour.
Swedish National Defence College - Contributes research and the training of military officers and civilians for staff, commander and specialist positions for the Total Defence or for international missions. News and event anouncements; mission; and information about academic, research, and international programs.
Swedish Armed Forces - Official site providing an overview of the structure, history, and operations of the Swedish military.
Swedish Air Force Air Combat Simulation Center - FLSC is a simulation facility developed for the Swedish Air Force at the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) in Bromma. Description of the system and hardware, images and video.
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf Military If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Military The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Military In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Military I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Military To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Military Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) We love because it's the only true adventure. -- Nikki Giovanni "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb Military "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Military Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Military "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Military Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Military There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marry in haste, repent in leisure. -- Tilney Military Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Military Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson Military Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Military The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Military It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Military "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Military Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Military "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Military We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military
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