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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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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Enemy Judging Looks
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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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
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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Advice Enemy God Love
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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Country Destroy Intention
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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
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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Giving Leadership People
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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Army Military War
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
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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Alive Business Fear War
I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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