J. F. C. Fuller

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

British Soldier

Peter Scott

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.

English Artist

Theodor W. Adorno

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

German Philosopher

Seth Moulton

My battalion motto in the Marines was, 'Whatever it takes,' and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.

American Politician

Alvaro Uribe

When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.

Colombian Statesman

Tammy Duckworth

If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

Voltaire

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

French Writer

Mike Jackson

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

English Playwright

Patrick MacGill

Irish Journalist

Understand 'battalion' as part of a military hierarchy; it’s smaller than a brigade but larger than a company.

Military Unit

'Battalion' implies readiness for combat and can denote a sense of urgency or importance in military operations.

Combat Context

'Battalion' can indicate a specialized group within an army, like engineers or signal corps.

Specialization

Used metaphorically to suggest a very large number of people or things.

Figurative Use

Though figurative, it still conveys a sense of organization or grouping, not just a random collection.

Implies Organization

Use 'battalion' to emphasize the overwhelming quantity or presence of something.

Emphasize Abundance

 their possessions and their keepsakes then haul away what couldn't be salvaged who are you guys one of the locals asked we're veterans they said we're here to help in the wake of the tornado Team Rubicon mobilized as an army battalion Mike within 24 hours there were a couple

Lessons we can learn...

 Not a single one of those cells is conscious; not a single one of those cells knows who you are, or cares. Somehow, we have to explain how when you put together teams, armies, battalions of hundreds of millions of little robotic unconscious cells --

The illusion of...

 officers’ quarters, and even schools, as Cossacks prize literacy. Stepan and his men make their way to the barracks where they live and train alongside several other battalions or kurins, all of which make up a several hundred man regiment.

A day in the life of a...

 norm it's not to us it's important professional polite vigilant this is my first time going through this national training center experience my goal for my battalion is that did every lesson that we learned here by time we leave at

Iraq in America PIPE...

 I walked out feeling as low as a snake's belly in a wagon rut. And I saw my battalion commander, because I had let him down. And I went up to apologize to him, and he said, "Stanley, I thought you did great." And in one sentence,

Stanley McChrystal:...

 who hunt and kill them for their body parts. To stop the killing of these animals, battalions of soldiers and rangers are sent to protect Nepal's national parks, but that is not an easy task, because these soldiers have to patrol

Lian Pin Koh: A...

 insurgents the insurgents continue to wait indoors to ambush the troops November 13th lieutenant colonel Willie Buell leads marine battalion 3-1 on a house clearing mission they learned that several

Battle for Fallujah PIPE...

 The Germans were embedded in this mountain hillside, rocky hillside, in impregnable caves, and three allied battalions had been pounding away at it for six months, and they were stalemated.