Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.

During Basic, sometimes you’re so tired you can’t even get up to piss. You’re pushed beyond whatever limits you had set for yourself. You realize that your body can do things that you never imagined....

All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what...

O it’s Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy ‘ow’s your soul/But it’s thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live...

In my life I’ve been very lucky to travel around the world and see students and teachers in nearly two dozen countries—but the most awe-inspiring experience I’ve ever had was two years after 9/11 when...

I don’t really remember making a decision. I don’t remember thinking to myself, “Yes, I will do this,” or, “No, I will not do that.” They tell you what to do, and you do it....

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.