If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.