I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.
I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.
I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.
Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
The art of using troops is this:. . . . . . When ten to the enemy's one, surround him;. . . . . . When five times his strength, attack him;. . . . . . If double his strength, divide him;. . . . . . If equally matched you may engage him;. . . . . . If weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing;. . . . . . And if in all respects unequal, be capable of eluding him,. . . . . . . . . . for a small force is but booty for one more powerful.
Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.
I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.
Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.
One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.
Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.
You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.
[Barack Obama] is sending more troops [to Afghanistan], but they have also realized that we are not going to win that war through guns and tanks. We have to engage the neighbors, and it is good that there is a non-military strategy in addition to a military strategy. It is, at least, encouraging. Whether it will work or not, the jury is still put.
Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.