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.

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.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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.

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