Clear vision Quote by Annie Jacobsen

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief…

— Donald Rumsfeld

McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields…

— Peter Bergen

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought…

— Leon Panetta

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had.

— Dick Cheney

It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.

— Mark Esper

“Eisenhower’s tragedy was that he permitted himself to be pushed into what turned out to be a trap. He had succumbed to General George…

— Ladislas Farago

Author says that, while Eisenhower had other intellectual mentors, he learned how to lead men from Gen. Walter Krueger. Krueger was the first American…

— Jean Edward Smith

“Eisenhower was certain any war with the Soviet Union would become a nuclear war, and any nuclear war would escalate into a full, all-out…

— Garrett M. Graff

“military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical…

— Michael Wolff

In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied…

— James Keller

“In contemplating who should command the Army’s multiplying regiments and divisions, Marshall and his training chief, Lesley J. McNair, kept a list in a…

— Rick Atkinson

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He…

— Barton Gellman