I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this..

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become ….

When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose to endure the s….

The task [in Afghanistan] is to reduce civilian casualties while still not hesitating to respond to enemies who are trying to kill our soldiers..

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair..

Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida,….

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it..

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what ….

We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want them to support o….

US forces have been increased [in Afghanistan ] from some 21,000 to about 31,000 over the past two years and a number of coalition countries have als….

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are ….

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is r….

Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some prog….

The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and by not being part of the new Iraq. They ….

The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right..

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor….

Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from th….

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plung….

I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago - I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago - whether they were….

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crime….

Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists..