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The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.