--- title: "3 Paul Yingling Quotes - Famous Military personnel" description: "Paul Yingling is a retired United States Army colonel, best known for a 2007 article in Armed Forces Journal that criticized senior military leadership ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/paul-yingling-80962_behave_officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-pe_42901.jpg" --- # Paul Yingling Military Personnel **3** quotes in **35** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Paul Yingling is a military personnel. ## Quick Facts About Paul Yingling Profession Military Personnel ## About Paul Yingling Paul Yingling is a retired United States Army colonel, best known for a 2007 article in Armed Forces Journal that criticized senior military leadership for failures during the occupation of Iraq. ## Quotes by Paul Yingling > [Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-yingling/officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-peacetime-cannot-be-expected-to/) Paul Yingling [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/paul-yingling-80962_behave_officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-pe_42901.jpg) > [...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-yingling/a-private-who-loses-a-rifle-suffers-far-greater-consequences-than-a/) Paul Yingling [Consequence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consequence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/paul-yingling-80962_consequence_a-private-who-loses-a-rifle-suffers-far_1853588.jpg) > [The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-yingling/the-intellectual-and-moral-failures-common-to-america-s-general/) Paul Yingling [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/045/paul-yingling-80962_advise_the-intellectual-and-moral-failures-comm_2313945.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-yingling/#itemlist", "name": "Paul Yingling Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Yingling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-yingling/officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-peacetime-cannot-be-expected-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/paul-yingling-80962_behave_officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-pe_42901.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/paul-yingling-80962_behave_officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-pe_42901.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/paul-yingling-80962_behave_officers-conditioned-to-conformity-in-pe_42901.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.” — Paul Yingling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Yingling" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-yingling/a-private-who-loses-a-rifle-suffers-far-greater-consequences-than-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/paul-yingling-80962_consequence_a-private-who-loses-a-rifle-suffers-far_1853588.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/paul-yingling-80962_consequence_a-private-who-loses-a-rifle-suffers-far_1853588.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/399/paul-yingling-80962_consequence_a-private-who-loses-a-rifle-suffers-far_1853588.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.” — Paul Yingling", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. 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