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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over 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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