There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.