I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration go…

- William Eldridge Odom

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

- William Eldridge Odom

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expen…

- William Eldridge Odom

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months …

- William Eldridge Odom

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I thin…

- William Eldridge Odom

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

- William Eldridge Odom

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

- William Eldridge Odom

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

- William Eldridge Odom

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for th…

- William Eldridge Odom