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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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

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.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

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.

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.