How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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 professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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 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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