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:
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“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)
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)