Archive for 2011

As always, it will be the army with the best leaders, and therefore with the most courageous, loyal, and devoted men, that will be victorious.

I think leadership is a product of native ability plus environment By environment, I mean training and the opportunity to exercise leadership

I have seen many times in combat where somebody who is small and meek was given the opportunity and had leadership you never before realized he had, and he becomes a Medal of Honor winner.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Our troops are capable of the best discipline. If they lack it, leadership is faulty.

Soldiers will not follow any battle leader with confidence unless they know that he will require full performance of duty from every member of the team.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

It is, indeed, an observable fact that all leaders of men, whether as political figures, prophets, or soldiers, all those who can get the best out of others, have always identified themselves with high ideals.

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders not only to be skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity who have a deep understanding of the human strengths and weaknesses …Read More