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.

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.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

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

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

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

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.