Joseph Dunford Quotes

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

The U.S. and Japan are scared of us catching up, and they will do anything to contain China's development …

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.