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

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.

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

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.

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

The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.

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.