Military
- Maurice Anderson (1908–1986), often known as Bill Anderson, British Army medical officer
- William Anderson (naval officer) (1921–2007), commander of the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, later a United States Representative from Tennessee
- William Anderson (RAAF officer) (1891–1975), Australian air marshal
- William Anderson (VC) (1885–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Herbert Anderson (1881–1918), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William T. Anderson (1839–1864), American Civil War guerrilla commander, known as "Bloody Bill"
- William Anderson (Canadian Army officer) (1915–2000), Canadian general
- William Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1852–?), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Y. Anderson (1921–2011), Swedish American fighter ace of World War II
- William C. Anderson (United States Air Force), Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment & Logistics) 2005–2008
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“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)