Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.