If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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