ilted fight to American victory at the beginning, had run longer than any in the nation’s history. They were engines of chaos and fear. The American Marine Corps General Victor Krulak once observed, “The war you prepare for is rarely the war you get,” and you could find this phrase whistling through the years

e prompted him to focus on this issue when it looked like the United States might get drawn into a war with Venezuela. "I understand — as a former Marine Corps intelligence officer — the real-world limitations to and the sensitivities associated with sharing certain information, even with members of Congre