Christopher Vokes

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

— Christopher Vokes

But now I salute you who follow me, It is my time to stand at ease ... content.

— Christopher Vokes

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

— Christopher Vokes

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

— Christopher Vokes

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War…

— Christopher Vokes

Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite…

— Christopher Vokes

The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was:…

— Christopher Vokes

I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring…

— Christopher Vokes

I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders,…

— Christopher Vokes

I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and…

— Christopher Vokes