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

In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

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.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.