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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

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Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

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There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

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For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

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Be the hunter, not the hunted.

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You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

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Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

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There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

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Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.

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For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: September 8th, 1950

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