Military
- John Hayes (explorer) (1768–1831), of the British East India Company
- John Hayes (Royal Navy officer) (1767/1775–1838), Royal Navy admiral
- Sir John Macnamara Hayes, 1st baronet (1750?–1809), military physician
- John Hayes (sailor) (1832–1911), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- John B. Hayes (1924–2001), U.S. Coast Guard commandant
- John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991), U.S. Navy admiral and naval historian
- John Osler Chattock Hayes (1913–1998), British admiral
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“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)
“The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
“The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)