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Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

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

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.

I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.