They are more mature than some other of our potential adversaries, and I think they have some stated intents that concern me in terms of how the Cold War ended, they have shown some significant capability in Ukraine to do operations that are fairly sophisticated, and so, for me, I think we should pay a lot of attention.

Raymond Odierno

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This is the second or third time they've claimed that, the first two times, I'll tell you, whatever lists they got were not taken by any cyberattack.

Raymond Odierno

There are limits to military power, it's about sustainable outcome. And the problem we've had is we've had outcomes, but they've been only short-term outcomes because we haven't looked at, we haven't properly looked at, the political and economic sides of this. It's got to be all three that come together. And if you don't do that, it's not going to solve the problem.

Raymond Odierno

We have to stop a long-term group that's potentially attempting to be a long-term influence in the Middle East, that is clearly promoting extremism and frankly suppressing the populations in the Middle East, in order to resolve that, you need the countries in the Middle East, and those surrounding the Middle East, to be involved in this solution.

Raymond Odierno

I would take the oil away, I'd take their money away. by Raymond Odierno

I would take the oil away, I'd take their money away.

Raymond Odierno

We have deterrent there and I think we're doing a good job with that, what we have do in the next several years is continue to increase that so the risk goes up for anybody who might consider operations in Eastern Europe.

Raymond Odierno