It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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.
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
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 general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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