Frases de Norman Schwarzkopf

El General Herbert Norman "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf KCB, [1]​ fue un general del Ejército de los Estados Unidos que, mientras servía como Comandante en Jefe del Mando Central de los Estados Unidos, fue comandante de las fuerzas de la Coalición en la Guerra del Golfo de 1991. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. agosto 1934 – 27. diciembre 2012   •   Otros nombres H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Norman Schwarzkopf mlajši
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Norman Schwarzkopf: Frases en inglés

“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.”

As quoted in U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 110, Issues 5 (1991 Feb 11), p. 32
Contexto: A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

“Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.”

As quoted in U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 110, Issues 5 (1991 Feb 11), p. 32
Contexto: A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

“As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist: He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier.”

Contexto: As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist: He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man.

Gulf War briefing (28 February 1991), as quoted in "WAR IN THE GULF: Commander's Briefing; Excerpts From Schwarzkopf News Conference on Gulf War" in The New York Times

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

Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" (2002) by James Charlton, p. 83
Disputed

“I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting.”

As quoted in I Fail to Miss Your Point (2007) by Jim O'Bryon, p. 409

“Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.”

Quoted in "The Military Quotation Book" (2002) by James Charlton, p. 60

“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.”

As quoted in General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. Interview with the American Academy of Achievement Source: [General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. Interview, www.achievement.org, "Academy of Achievement", https://achievement.org/achiever/general-h-norman-schwarzkopf/#interview] As quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes from American Heroes (2005) by Kelly Nickell, p. 53

“When placed in command — take charge.”

Quoted in "Leadership" (2007) by David M. Atkinson, p. 42

“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.”

Interview with Barbara Walters (15 March 1991); also quoted in his memoir It Doesn't Take a Hero : General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Autobiography (1992), p. xiii

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