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

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.

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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

I don't take criticism lying down.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

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.