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Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

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

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.

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.