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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt 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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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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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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 hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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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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.
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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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