It's a lot of fun to fight.
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.
I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies - I was Armed with Insight.
I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.
There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.
