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Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years ... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like ... but no one has to do anything about it.
Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.
As the Chief of the Defence Staff says, you don't defend on the goal line. Defending the interests of the U.K. means tackling threats early and at source, and that means intervening overseas.
It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.
I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.
We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
