When my guys have to go to Wal-Mart and buy walkie-talkies to be able to communicate, that’s unacceptable. When we’ve got to pay Iraqi civilians to get us AA batteries for our night-vision goggles, that’s unacceptable. And the armor issues we’ve heard about for months now, those were catastrophic failures.
When he defected to the west in 1992 former Soviet KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin brought with him several boxes full of documents and notes he had smuggled out of Russia, providing the U.S. and Britain with some of the richest details yet on how the KGB operated during the Cold War. Historian Christopher Andrew drew upon those papers for the 1999 bestseller The Sword and the Shield, which dealt with KGB operations in the U.S. and Europe. Now, in a book called The World Was Going Our Way, come details of the KGB's missions in the Third World.
When my guys have to go to Wal-Mart and buy walkie-talkies to be able to communicate, that’s unacceptable. When we’ve got to pay Iraqi civilians to get us AA batteries for our night-vision goggles, that’s unacceptable. And the armor issues we’ve heard about for months now, those were catastrophic failures. 
