Via Instapundit, AP is reporting that Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf is dead at age 78. RIP.

“The hourlong Schwarzkopf postwar briefing on the 1991 victory,” which we’ve embedded above, “is still a masterpiece of the genre,” Joshua Trevino tweets.

Update: “The Man Who Forgot to Lose.”

More: “Favorite Schwarzkopf wisecrack: going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordion.”