...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war..

The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any ex….

Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy w….

To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow ….

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys..

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?.

I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know t….

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted..

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land..

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and mo….

If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let….

I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House C….

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea..

In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evid….

The first and absolute requirement of strategic air power in this war was control of the air in order to carry out sustained operations without prohi….

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons..

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only t….

I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper re….

Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors..

To maintain discipline in the military, it must have been necessary at that time. For soldiers who risked their lives in circumstances where bullets ….

You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able to develop the kin….