Military
- John Brown (British Army soldier) (died 1964), UK spy and POW during the Second World War
- John Brown of Pittsfield (1744–1780), American Revolutionary War officer
- John Brown (Medal of Honor) (1838–?), American sailor and peacetime Medal of Honor recipient
- John Brown (sailor) (1826–1883), American sailor and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- John M. Brown III, Lieutenant General in the United States Army
- John S. Brown, United States Army brigadier general; Chief Historian of the United States Army Center of Military History
- John Brown, Jr. (Navajo) (1921–2009), American Navajo Code Talker during World War II
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“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)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)