Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Armies are not only for offensives.
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