In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a threat.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.