I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge 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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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