"We have men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mo…"

"I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose com…"

"We are dealing with [veterans], not procedures; with their problems, not ours."

"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt fo…"

"Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyo…"

"To those soldiers who must often have wondered WHY they were going where they did. Perhaps this will help answer thei…"

"Conscientiously though we have sought to avoid them, the reader may find errors attributable in part to inaccurate so…"

"In this book I have tried to achieve one purpose: to explain how war is waged on the field from the field command pos…"

"To tell the story of how and why we chose to do what we did, no one can ignore the personalities and characteristics …"

"It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship."