Chain of command Quote by Robert M. Edsel

“He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers…

— Joe Abercrombie

“By what I have read in books, I think few that have held a pen were ever really wearied, or they would write of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

— William Shakespeare

“To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor…

— Tom Clancy

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up…

— Arthur Balfour

“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

When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they…

— Ralph Lauren

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

— Anonymous

“The warrior fills many roles, and the capacity to do so requires an intelligence that ordinary soldiers are not trained to possess.”

— Rachel E. Carter

“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

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus