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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

— Richard Perle

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

— Philip Hammond

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

— Mike Jackson

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

— Michael T. Flynn

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

— Om Puri

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

— Stephen Hadley

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

— John Hunt Morgan

The sergeant is the Army.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budgets. It's solving complex problems. If you can sit down with warlords, you can certainly sit down with different parties and folks with different interests and come out with an amenable solution.

— Ryan Zinke

✗Opposing Perspectives

You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.

— Lindsey Graham

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

— Vladimir Horowitz