In General McChrystal's recent book, Team of Teams, he recounted the only way to succeed was to change and get everyone involved in the war with Al Qaeda across agencies and military branches talking and listening. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom If that requires you to change, that's your mission." "There's likely a place in paradise for people who tried hard, but what really matters is succeeding.
"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him." Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, and former General of the Army ''Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.''
"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name." I am fortunate to live in a country where war is a distant event, only made real by friends and family who have or currently do serve. The crucible of war and battle is a challenge I can only imagine. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” - General Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle.
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