Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.