Military
- Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
- Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
- "The Black Jack Brigade", nickname of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (United States)
- VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron
- Black Jack (horse) (1947–1976), served the United States Army as the riderless horse in full honors funerals
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“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)