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Equality and opportunity are matters of military readiness, not just political correctness.
House Armed Services Committee (2020)
If you can't get in shape in 24 months, then maybe you should hit the road.
The nature of war is not going to change. It's still a political act. It's a decision by humans to impose their political will on their opponent by the use of violence.
West Point graduation address (2022)
You are what makes the United States undaunted by the difficult, and motivated by the impossible.
West Point graduation address (2022)
We who wear the cloth of our nation understand that cohesion is a force multiplier. Divisiveness leads to defeat. As one of our famous presidents said, 'a house divided does not stand.'
House Armed Services Committee (2020)
Combat is not for the faint of heart, it's not for the weak-kneed, it's not for those who are not psychologically resilient and tough and hardened to the brutality, to the viciousness of it. We've got to get this Army hard, and we've got to get it hard fast.
They were traitors at the time, they are traitors today, and they're traitors in death for all of eternity. Change the names, Mr. President.
We are facing, right now, two global powers: China and Russia, each with significant military capabilities, and both fully intend to change the current rules-based order.
West Point graduation address (2022)
We have challenges to be sure, but the military has been and remains the largest meritocracy in the world. We promote, we advance and we select based on your knowledge, your skills, your attributes and the content of your character. We are stronger together. Diversity builds a better team and readiness.
[You] have become a team. And you're going to be drawing upon each other for the rest of your lives.
West Point graduation address (2022)
In your world, you're going to have to optimize yourselves for urban combat, not rural combat. That has huge implications for intelligence collection, vehicles, weapons design, development, logistics, camo and all of the other aspects of our progression.
West Point graduation address (2022)
We don't want to lose thousands of soldiers to [the ACFT]. This fitness test is hard. No one should be under any illusions about it, but we really don't want to lose soldiers on the battlefield. We don't want young men and women to get killed in action because they weren't fit.