How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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 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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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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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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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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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