I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.