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War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

— Georges Clemenceau

Any military commander who is honest with himself, or with those he is speaking to, will admit that he has made mistakes in the…

— Robert McNamara

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

— Georges Clemenceau

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on…

— Leo Tolstoy

Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

— Rick Riordan

I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's…

— James Zogby

A beaten general is disgraced forever.

— Ferdinand Foch

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

— John Adams

“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.”

— Noam Chomsky

You're beginning to hear the tale of the common man and woman rather than the traditional memoir about the generals who just finished the…

— Frank McCourt

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

— Christopher Vokes