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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
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 SCHWARZKOPF

Country Destroy Intention
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Enemy Judging Looks
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Country Hunt War
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Failure Leadership
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Fight Soldier Veterans Day
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Secret Success Sweat Sweet
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Awful Temper
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Military Motivational Peace Sports
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?
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Duty Rough
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Leadership Lucky Successful War

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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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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