Barry McCaffrey

“Cyber warfare is the new frontier of conflict.”

“The Army is too small for the missions it's being asked to perform.”

“We have to get a lot tougher with the Russians. They are playing chess and I think we are playing checkers.”

“The Afghan security forces are not capable of holding this country together without U.S. and NATO enabling combat power.”

“There is no military solution to this problem... The only solution is a political settlement.”

“Leadership is the most important element of combat power.”

“The Russians are trying to dismantle NATO. They're trying to dismantle the European Union.”

“You can't have a strategy that says we're going to get out on a certain date. The enemy gets a vote.”

“The drug problem is a public health problem, not a criminal justice problem.”

“Putin is a KGB colonel. He acts like a KGB colonel.”

“Air power is a very blunt instrument.”

“The idea that you can create a democracy at the point of a gun is a dangerous illusion.”

“The intelligence community is the bedrock of our national security.”

“We went into a sectarian civil war and we became one of the armed factions.”

“This is a moment of extreme danger for the United States.”

“We cannot afford to fail in Afghanistan.”

“The VA system is broken. It's a national disgrace.”

“We've got to rebuild the trust between the American people and their military.”

“These are good kids... These are 19-year-old soldiers, they're going to make mistakes. But they're not war criminals.”

“We're going to see a messy, ugly, long-term fight.”