IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE!!!

"I think that there is one really fundamental military truth.  And that's that you can add up the correlation of forces, you can look at the number of tanks, you can look at the number of airplanes, you can look at all these factors of military might and put them together.  But unless the soldier on the ground, or the airman in the air, has the will to win, has the strength of character to go into battle, believes that his cause is just, and has the support of his country...all the rest of that stuff is irrelevant."

-General Norman Schwarzkopf

...which reminded me of one of my favorite quotes:

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."

-General George S. Patton Jr.