Eric Shinseki Dine Quotations

The price for achieving that kind of readiness in our early deploying units has been to accept risk elsewhere in the force.

We have diverted soldiers from other organizations to fill our high-priority, war-fighting formations, ... Second, we have, for years, mortgaged our future readiness -- this modernization effort -- in order to assure that our soldiers had, in the near-term, what it takes to fight and win decisively.