Military
- George Brown (British Army officer) (1790–1865)
- George Scratchley Brown (1918–1978), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Harry W. Brown (1898–1917), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Jacob Brown (1775–1828), U.S. Army officer in the War of 1812, later commanding general, U.S. Army
- John Brown (British Army soldier), British POW and spy during the Second World War
- Peter Brown (VC) (1837–1894), Swedish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Roy Brown (RAF officer) (1893–1944), Canadian World War I flying ace
- Tom Brown (British Army soldier) (1705–1746), hero of the Battle of Dettingen
- Walter Brown (VC), DCM (1885–1942), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Brown (admiral) (1777–1857), Irish-born Argentine Navy admiral
- William Brown (sailor), black woman who served in the Royal Navy disguised as a man
- William Brown (soldier) (18th century), American Revolutionary War soldier
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)