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A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budgets. It's solving complex problems. If you can sit down with warlords, you can certainly sit down with different parties and folks with different interests and come out with an amenable solution.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.

Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

In the army, we do two things every day. We train our soldiers, and then we grow them into leaders, because frankly, we don't hire out. We grow our own leaders.