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
inspection people team
You need that U.N. inspection team in there on the ground. They're the people that can find it and ferret it out,
asked country leave
They didn't want to go to war, they didn't want to leave their families, but when their country asked them to, they did, because they thought it was the right thing to do,
facing help
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.'
absolutely announced chemical found huge loved
There were no reports, absolutely none, zero, ... I would have loved to have announced that we found huge caches of chemical weapons.
gear protective sent time troops
So the alarms went off all the time over there. When they did, we put our troops in protective gear and then we sent in our most sophisticated equipment.
america armed asking bush desert forces george great help named operation
... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?
air battle cut eight force four last mount operations reports
The Navy's battle force in the last eight years has been cut by one third. And the Air Force reports that it is now called on to mount four times as many operations with a force that has been cut by 40 percent,
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?
war profane
War is a profane thing.
fall iraq mass-destruction
If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.
caring thinking humans
I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
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.