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:
“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)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)