Military
- John Smith (British Army officer) (1754–1837), soldier in the American Revolutionary War
- John Mark Frederick Smith (1790–1874), British general and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers
- John Smith (sergeant) (1814–1864), soldier in the Bengal Sappers and Miners, and Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipient
- John E. Smith (1816–1897), Swiss emigrant, Union general during the Civil War
- John Smith (private) (1822–1866), soldier in the 1st Madras (European) Fusillers and Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipient
- John Smith (Medal of Honor, b. 1826) (1826–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Smith (Medal of Honor, b. 1831) (1831–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Smith (Medal of Honor, 1880) (1854–?), United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- John Manners Smith (1864–1920), recipient of the Victoria Cross
- John Lucian Smith (1914–1972), United States Marine Corps flying ace and Medal of Honor recipient
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“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)
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)