The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity..

There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself, to seek out his….

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard..

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget..

We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which mea….

What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism….

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world..

The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I go….

One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrass….

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a privat….

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of sh….

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much t….

Desert Storm was a war which involved the massive use of air power and a victory achieved by the U.S. and multinational air force units. It was also ….

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens..

Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill..

My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I….

Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to p….

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again..

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service..

Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an i….