With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but….

Anyone who kills women and children is not devout. ISIS cannot dress themselves up in false religious garb and say that somehow this message has dign….

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no man….

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they le….

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure….

Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down..

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?.

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling..

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has….

The importance of strengthening Euro-Atlantic security: the growing dangers pile pressure on our rules-based international system, so we need to do m….

The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event..

PowerPoint makes us stupid..

I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secre….

We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one..

I was struck by the fact that none of the senators, basically, asked General [James] Mattis, "Well, General, how is it that we haven't won?" We haven….

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations..

General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 ….

I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear. I vote….

In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while..

Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts tha….

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable..