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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge 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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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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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 am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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 don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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