Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

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My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

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'Resource-constrained environment' are fancy Pentagon words that mean there isn't enough money to go around.

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Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

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More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

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