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!

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

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

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

War is fear cloaked in courage.