July/August 2022

“I say China is playing chess. They have a long-term view: They are setting the theater, which is what we use as a doctrinal term or a way I can say it in layman’s terms.”

“Even if I didn’t know what I was doing, I would still try and help as best I could. But we had been through training exactly like this situation, so I knew what to do right away.”

“The reemergence of ISIS as a threat to the American homeland is increasing by the day. There’s a perfect storm brewing in northeastern Syria, where we have a refugee camp full of ISIS wives and children mixed in with other populations. That’s going to be an ISIS factory.”

“The Ukrainians are making the Russians pay for every inch of territory they gain, and advances are measured in literally hundreds of meters on some days, you might get a kilometer or two out of the Russians, but not much more than that.”

“I understand … law and order, discipline. You tell the platoon to charge the machine gun, they got to do it. But also, as leaders, we have to evaluate our orders and whether it’s worth the risk.