June 2006Issue 390



General H Norman Schwarzkopf

‘‘Here we were, not only winning this war – absolutely routing the enemy – and yet our casualties were practically... non-existent. You know, that kind of made you feel that God was on your side.”

General H Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - ), Supreme Commander of US/Allied forces in the 1991 Gulf War.




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