Military
- William Jackson (pirate), British pirate
- William Jackson (VC) (1897–1959), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Hicks Jackson (1835–1903), Confederate general from Tennessee
- Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917–1999), British general, Governor of Gibraltar, military historian, and author
- William Lowther "Mudwall" Jackson (1825–1890), Confederate general
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“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)
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)