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• We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' -…
• There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.
• America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.
• Future U.S. political leaders, those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me, may not…
• If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
• Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as…
• In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or…
• What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.
• Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.
• Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly,
• And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be…
• I consider myself a Republican.

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