Been Quote by Robert Dallek

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

— 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

A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every…

— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but…

— Anonymous

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the…

— John Olver

That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have…

— Charles R. Chamberlain

The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that…

— Paul Yingling

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

— Georges Clemenceau

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. —General Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S.…

— Marie Force

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

— George Stillman Hillard