How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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