As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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