I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?.

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense….

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exactio….

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy..

The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do th….

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences..

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American mi….

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us..

The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That it is an importan….

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government..

The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fea….

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, ….

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. Thi….

The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all..

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?.

I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US mil….

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life..

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interes….

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!.

But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the ….

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him ab….