I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

The Russians haven't helped us at all in the fight against ISIS. When you total up the numbers of sorties that have been going into Syria, aircraft attacks, if you will, going into Syria, when the Russians said they were going to assist, we got a very small number of Russian sorties.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

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

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.