Birth: December 15, 1953
We need to understand what we're saying matters..
I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk..
There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan toda….
The Russians haven't helped us at all in the fight against ISIS. When you total up the numbers of sorties that have been going into Syria, aircraft a….
I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission..
We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - ….
One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do..
We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, no….
It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children..
None of us wants any more war..
Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission..
And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situ….
We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing..
The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another per….
There are problems in the world today..
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies..
Donald Trump has no credibility to criticize me or my record or anything that I have done. If he had spent a minute in the deserts of Afghanistan or ….
What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in….
What we do have to do, is listen to what Donald Trump's been saying about our military. He's called it a disaster. He says our military can't win any….
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis..
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent the….