Military
- Grand Slam (bomb), 10-tonne British "earthquake bomb" of World War II
- Grand Slam Installation, modification of the 1946 US airplane B-36 as the B-36B capable of delivering nuclear weapons from 1949
- Exercise Grand Slam, major NATO naval exercise in the Mediterranean during the 1950s
- Operation Grand Slam, plan to steal the U.S. gold reserves from Fort Knox in the 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
- Operation Grand Slam, 1960 US espionage mission over the Soviet Union (1960 U-2 incident)
- Operation Grand Slam, 1962 United Nations offensive operation during the Congo Crisis
- Operation Grand Slam, 1965 Pakistan Army offensive plan for the Indo-Pakistani War
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“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)
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