Norman Schwarzkopf
Norman Schwarzkopf
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.was a United States Army general. While serving as Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth22 August 1934
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
hunting fishing apologizing
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
inspiring mothers-day father
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
eye two people
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.
iraq mind looks
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.
awful temper written
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
loss trying realization
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.
politician
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
caring thinking humans
I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
wise war want
I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
army may proud
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.
giving sides alarms
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
judging enemy looks
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.
love-you mean fighting
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.
sometimes duty rough
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?