When placed in command, take charge.
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attack...
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.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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.
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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. Oth...
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore wou...
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way th...