#commander

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fifth-business #historians #infantry #orders #survival

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#commander #courage #expediency #goes #insisted

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander. ↗

— John Andre

#british #commander #consider #country #death

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. ↗

— Arleigh Burke

#authority #commander #exceed #fails #his

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders. ↗

— John Buford

#cavalry #commanders #i #i believe #me

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there. ↗

— Howard Dean

#brothers #chief #commander #daughters #die

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#al-qaeda #am #commander #encouraged #face

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#atmosphere #big #commander #contaminated #critical

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.' ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#commander #ever #going #ground #guys