Cry Havoc Quotes

“Ho Chi Minh is willing to sacrifice a generation. Is America?”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“America is going to destroy this country in order to save it. Saigon is for sale”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“When you are in the jungle what does it smell like?” she asked. Tom took a moment to answer. “Depends. Decay mostly.” “That’s what I smell here”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Stop framing this conflict in terms of victory. Your countrymen see victory through the lens of VE Day and parades from the Second World War. What you are really doing in Vietnam is avoiding defeat”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Your press is complicit in this story”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“We may never know exactly what happened”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“We can capitalize on the situation. Regardless of what happens in the rest of the country”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Our sources tell us that most of the American and international press rarely leave Saigon”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“The American occupiers were no better than the French colonizers and no better than the Nazis that had plagued his native France. One day they too would be defeated. When the Americans left—and they would”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“You can’t control the wind”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“couple ounces of gin and fresh orange juice over ice. Half a lime.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Special Operations Group’s Vietnamese naval surface forces—instructed and advised by U.S. Navy SEALs—boldly raided North Vietnam’s coast and won surface victories against the North Vietnamese Navy, while indigenous agent teams penetrated the very heartland of North Vietnam.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Keep in mind that these are all initial reports, and as with any initial reports some information is bound to change.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“How many Americans are you willing to sacrifice?”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Do you know what they call the war in the North? Dau Tranh Vu Trang, ‘the violence struggle,’ struggle being the key word. It comes down to how many Americans you are willing to sacrifice before you lose Vietnam.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Won’t it be hard to leave this?” Serrano asked, gesturing to the view. “Yes, but life is about change, and business is about adaptability.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“If you are going to survive in this world you are going to have to be more attentive.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Lansdale understood the power of psychological operations.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“This was an officer who truly cared for the men he led.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“You will try to end your life, but the guards will not allow it. They will keep you alive in an endless cycle of darkness, cold, and toil.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Just know that if you betray my trust, you will find yourself in the gulag, in Siberia, and you will be worked until you are too weak to move.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“The women of that generation were something else. Went right from the Great Depression into World War Two.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Move, stop, listen.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Team Havoc was constantly adapting and evolving both their tactics and equipment. That is how one stayed alive in Southeast Asia.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Don’t get cocky. It’s not over until you touch down at Phu Bai.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Havoc, this is Covey, say again your last, over.” The voice from the heavens, heavy with an American southern accent, was a lifeline. A chance to survive.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“Keep moving. To stop is to die.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“If they can see you, they can hit you; if they can hit you, they can kill you. Don’t let them see you. And if you see them, you better shoot first. Do not hesitate.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“In his 1960 novel, The Centurions, a book that follows French paratroopers in counterinsurgency operations in Indochina and then Algeria, author Jean Lartéguy, who just might make an appearance in the pages ahead, writes: “I’d like… to have two armies: one for display, with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, fanfares, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers… an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country. The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage battledress, who would not be put on display but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That’s the army in which I should like to fight.” Every time I read that passage, I cannot help but think of MACV-SOG.”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc

“THE SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIER AS SEEN BY: (MACV-HQ) A DRUNKEN”
― Jack Carr, Cry Havoc