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Looking back on the West Point years, Norm's old friends still marvel at his single-minded ambition. "He saw himself as a successor to Alexander the Great, and we didn't laugh when he said it," recalls retired General Leroy Suddath, another former roommate. "Norm's favorite battle was Cannae," says Suddath, in which Hannibal in 216 crushed the forces of Rome. "It was the first real war of annihilation, the kind Norman wanted to fight." He desperately wanted to lead his country's forces into a major battle. "We'd talk about these things in the wee hours...
...Suddath claims that Schwarzkopf, with a reported I.Q. of 170, could easily have graduated first in his class of 480, instead of 43rd, "but he did a lot of other things except study." He wrestled and played a bit of tennis and football. He sang tenor and conducted the chapel choir and loved listening to what Suddath calls the "uplifting" martial music of Wagner and Tchaikovsky's cannonading 1812 Overture -- "the sort that makes you feel on top of the world...