People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.