Quote by Sun Tzu

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders…

— Sun Tzu

“If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame.”

— Sun Tzu

“We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that…

— Louis de Bernières

“These two misfortunes happen to armies, to become so terrified of the enemy that they are unwilling to attempt any offensive, and so bold…

— Onasander

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

— Chiang Kai-shek

“When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.”

— Sun Tzu

“Soldiers, all men in fact, are natural hero worshipers. Officers with a flare for command realize this and emphasize in their conduct, dress and…

— Robert L. Moore

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

“You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

— Orson Scott Card