"We have learned the need to be flexible……" — Tommy Franks
"We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission."
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23 Quotes by Tommy Franks
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A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States…
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Now, when you boys get home, you're gonna see a lot of war protestors. But don't be bitter. Go up…
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Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
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There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those…
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Gen. Tommy Franks Says That If The United States Is Hit With A Weapon Of Mass Destruction That Inflicts Large…
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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for…
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America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time…
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I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the…
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The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.
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We're in fact on plan. And where we stand today is not, in my view, only acceptable but truly remarkable.
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We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things,…
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If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would…
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My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In…
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So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.
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What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one?…
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