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I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or, I would call it, unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them, that sort of thing.
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I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
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There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.
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PowerPoint makes us stupid.
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In a country with millions of people & cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in a while.
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We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.
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We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.
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You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.
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Be the hunter, not the hunted: Never allow your unit to be caught with its guard down.
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We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.
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A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.
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Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot.
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Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.
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I was struck by the fact that none of the senators, basically, asked General [James] Mattis, Well, General, how is it that we haven't won? We haven't won anywhere, 'winning' in the sense of conclusively achieving our political objectives, however you might want to define those objectives.
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It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
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I'm from the American West. We have forest fires out there. And some of the worst forest fires in our history, the most damage were caused when we pulled the fire crews off the line too early. And so we're going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy - ISIS. There's no room for complacency on this.
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Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts that November day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers, along with 20 other people, following a roadside bomb in Haditha.
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If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
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You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.
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