#commander

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. ↗

— George S. Patton

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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

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The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

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

— John Buford

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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

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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

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