I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

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.

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

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 have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .