Military
- Grand Slam (bomb), 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
- Grand Slam Installation, modification of the 1946 US airplane B-36 as the B-36B capable of delivering nuclear weapons from 1949
- Exercise Grand Slam, major NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean during the 1950s
- Operation Grand Slam, plan to steal the U.S. gold reserves from Fort Knox in the 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
- Operation Grand Slam, 1960 US espionage mission over the Soviet Union (1960 U-2 incident)
- Operation Grand Slam, 1962 United Nations offensive operation during the Congo Crisis
- Operation Grand Slam, 1965 Pakistan Army offensive plan for the Indo-Pakistani War
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)