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Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam…

— Ben Shapiro

...Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.

— Karl Donitz

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As…

— Connie Zweig

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in…

— Winston Churchill

“By 1944, three years later, the ordeal and the turnabout had both been spectacular. The Soviet Union had lost as many as 20 million…

— C.J. Chivers

My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire…

— Daniel Fried

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What…

— Richard Armitage

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

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

The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions…

— J. D. Vance