Military
- Josef Bryks, pilot
- Alois Eliáš, army officer
- Josef František, pilot ace
- Radola Gajda, army officer
- Karel Kuttelwascher, general
- František Moravec, military intelligence officer
- František Peřina, pilot
- Prokop the Great, Hussite leader
- Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, field marshal
- Ludvík Svoboda, general, president
- Jan Syrový, general, prime minister
- Albrecht von Wallenstein, warlord during Thirty-Years War
- Leo Sviha,Generalissimo (1871-1974)
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Im not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“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 OCasey (18841964)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (16701733)