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" Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target. "

Norman Schwarzkopf

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" Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory. "

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" 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. "

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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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" It's nice to feel that you have a purpose. "

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" What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. "

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" For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. "

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" It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. "

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" Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. "

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" I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both. "

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" But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job. "

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" All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war. "

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" I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important. "

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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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" When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo. "

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" You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.' "

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" I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker. "

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" They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that. "

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" What people don't understand is this is something that we only have in America. There is no other country in the world where the ordinary citizen can go out and enjoy hunting and fishing. There's no other nation in the world where that happens. And it's very much a part of our heritage. "

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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 the Normandy Invasion was planned, a very specific strategic objective was given, and that strategic objective was the basis upon which the plan for the Normandy Invasion was derived. "

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" Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate. "

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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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" Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. "

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" An awful lot has been written about my temper. "

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" Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly. "

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" 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 the Iraqis have. "

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" When placed in command, take charge. "

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