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

War is fear cloaked in courage.

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

I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

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.