John R. Allen Quotes
- I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
- I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.
- Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.
- You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
- Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they…
- And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with…
- Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
- There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan…
- There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those,…
- And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan…