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There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.

Most people know nobody in the military.

A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.