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“The Commander had dragged him along on a ‘fact-finding mission’ to meet him and a few others in the Service last year, but the…

— Jeremy Duns

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

“Employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the…

— Sun Tzu

“There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Would you like to hear the latest news, that colonel we mentioned earlier has gone blind, It'll be interesting to see what he thinks…

— José Saramago

“You must be the only officer in the whole army who involves his regiment in his personal relationships.”

— K.M. Shea

“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger generation to…

— George Orwell

“British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.”

— Scott Anderson

“Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers’ comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to…

— James Herbert

“Occasionally the ideals seemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, but in times of moral quandary a conscientious officer could anchor…

— Rick Atkinson

“There was something decidedly unpleasant about him, sinister, at the same time absurd, that combination of the ludicrous and alarming soon to be widely…

— Anthony Powell

“Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted…

— Terry Pratchett