Richard Kohn Quotations

Send one plane it's a sortie; send two it's a flight; send four and it's a test of airpower.

No one wants to call the attention of the public to bloodletting and heroism and the horrifying character of combat. What situation can be imagined that would promote the war and not remind people of its ambivalence?

If they go out and attack the policy after leaving and they get personal about it, they're undermining civilian control.

I think it flatly is a bad thing. How can you prosecute a war if the military and civilians don't trust each other?

I think it flatly is a bad thing.

We can't be traveling four hours every time something needs to be done.

We got into the game pretty late. Standard forms of marketing are not proving effective, so we've had to come up with a more ambitious marketing plan.

It's a bursting of the dam in some ways of the frustration and anger, not only with the policies but with the way that Mr Rumsfeld has interacted with people, the disrespect he has shown to the military.

It is serious, very serious in the growing civil-military tension of this administration, which has been considerable from the very beginning. Where it's going to go I do not know, but I think it ought to stop.

I must admit that I'm quite ignorant about that.

I don't see any malicious political intent here ? just myopia and shortsightedness.