Military
- John Brown (British Army soldier) (died 1964), UK spy and POW during the Second World War
- John Brown of Pittsfield (1744–1780), American Revolutionary War officer
- John Brown (Medal of Honor) (1838–?), American sailor and peacetime Medal of Honor recipient
- John Brown (sailor) (1826–1883), American sailor and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- John M. Brown III, Lieutenant General in the United States Army
- John S. Brown, United States Army brigadier general; Chief Historian of the United States Army Center of Military History
- John Brown, Jr. (Navajo) (1921–2009), American Navajo Code Talker during World War II
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)