He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to become the government and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.
The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
For good or for ill air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies however vital and important must accept a subordinate rank.