Army Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

— Elbert Hubbard

Near a war is always not very near.

— Gertrude Stein

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

— Ambrose Bierce

“In all armies, soldiers serving with forward combat units shared a contempt for the much larger number of men in the rear areas who…

— Max Hastings

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

— Colin Powell

One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines…

— Ernie Pyle

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing…

— Richard Branson

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

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

— Shashi Tharoor

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

— Erwin Rommel

In the mind, that's where the battle is won or lost otherwise what follows is just response.

— Pascals Einstein