Commanders Quotes
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Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'
Ryan Zinke
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My rationale was that commanders and leaders have to judge and assess subordinates on their merit, and considerations that are not merit-based should not be part of the equation.
Norton A. Schwartz
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I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
Mike Oldfield
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
Rick Atkinson
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The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.
Erich von Manstein
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The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions
Georgy Zhukov