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“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

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was…

— Kurt Vonegat

“He had believed the life of an officer was easy, full of undeserved privilege and comfort. He had not seen the responsibility that the…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“to any soldier, what he does is tactical and what his next senior does is strategic.”

— J.C. Wylie

“A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that…

— Brandon Sanderson

“A general may succeed for some time in persuading his superiors that he is a good commander: he will never”

— Field Marshal Archibald wavell

“A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they…

— Steve Zaffron

“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might…

— Alistair MacLean

“He had a boyish enthusiasm for warfare and was delighted beyond words to be made a colonel in the Illinois National Guard without ever…

— Bill Bryson

“He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by…

— Terry Pratchett

“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.”

— John J. Pershing

“This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man…

— Steven Pressfield