How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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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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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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