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

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

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

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

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.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.