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Omar Bradley (Military Personnel)

If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

— Omar Bradley confidence

It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.

— Omar Bradley time

We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the . The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

— Omar Bradley wisdom

I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose communism is a guarantee that a world war will not be thrust upon us. But a policy of patience and determination without provoking a world war, while we improve our military power, is one which we believe we must continue to follow…. Under present circumstances, we have recommended against enlarging the war from Korea to also include Red China. The course of action often described as a limited war with Red China would increase the risk we are taking by engaging too much of our power in an area that is not the critical strategic prize. Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in .

— Omar Bradley war

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.

— Omar Bradley confidence

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

— Omar Bradley problems

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

— Omar Bradley guilt

In this book I have tried to achieve one purpose: to explain how war is waged on the field from the field command post. For it is there, midway between the conference table and the foxhole, that strategy is translated into battlefield tactics; there the field commander must calculated the cost of rivers, roads and hills in terms of guns, tanks, tonnage- and most importantly in terms of the lives and limbs of his soldiers. How, then, did we reach our critical decisions? Why and how did we go where we did? These are the critical questions I have been asked most often. And these are the questions that gave me justification for writing this book.p. ix.

— Omar Bradley writing

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