Afghanistan Quote by Ben Shapiro

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that…

— Leon Panetta

During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability…

— Melvin Laird

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the…

— Robert D. Kaplan

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley…

— Michael Ignatieff

“This is not to say, as some have, that American decisions between 1954 and 1956 (and later in the Eisenhower years) made the American-Vietnamese…

— James T. Patterson

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our…

— Paul Cook

“The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure…

— Mark Bowden

“The reduction in world conflicts led to defense budget cuts that hurt military contractors.”

— Max Tegmark

Under the Obama administration, the military faced drastic cuts leaving them with scarce and out-of-date resources.

— Mike Johnson

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

— Nguyen Cao Ky