Craig M. Mullaney quotes:

I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.

An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.