Military
- James B. Gordon (1822–1864), Confederate general
- Jim Gordon (VC) (1909–1986), Australian soldier awarded the Victoria Cross in 1941
- James Gordon (Royal Navy officer) (1782–1869), British admiral, basis of the fictional character Horatio Hornblower
- James Gordon, 2nd Viscount Aboyne (1620–1649), Scottish royalist commander in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“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)