We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.