Top 19 Quotes by David Hackworth

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.