- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
H R Mcmaster Quotes
Most Famous H R Mcmaster Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best h-r-mcmaster quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 H R Mcmaster Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
- Enamored
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
- Our
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.
- Dangerous
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
- Boss
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
- Conventional Wisdom
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
- Death
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.
- Nation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
- Long
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.
- Own
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
- Progress
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
- Early
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
- Future
- |
- Nov 07, 2020