The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

Social peace requires reciprocity.