A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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.
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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’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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