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:
“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)
“I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
—Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)
“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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