Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly.