Airplane Quote by Richard Perle

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do…

— Philip Hammond

“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them,…

— David Galula

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

— Anonymous

As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you…

— Ted Cruz

In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and…

— Tammy Duckworth

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

— Vladimir Horowitz

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

— Christopher Vokes

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

— Mike Jackson

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

— Oliver North

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a…

— Marlon Brando

It's pretty simple to play the role of an army officer.

— Dino Morea

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and…

— Stanley A. McChrystal