You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.
We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.
You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of just a few of the U.S. military bases in Baghdad.
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
Music has shaped men's fashion, and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically.
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
Col. Mathieu: To know them means to eliminate them. Consequently, the military aspect is secondary to the police method.
I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon.
On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
