A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words