The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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Spencer Jones is Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. The bureaucrats led by Mizuha, see the young hunters as chances to create a Propaganda Hero cadre (especially in The Rival Katsuya), and thus redistribute the rewards from the veterans to the young members. Rebuild World: The company of Private Military Contractors known as Drankam is rife with Right Hand Versus Left Hand infighting between two factions: Young hunters backed by the civilian bureaucrats, and the old guard veterans.

Afterwards, exposition reveals that Admiral Omega learned everything secondhand and had never actually fought a battle before. Pompey was more than happy to keep up The Siege and let Caesar's force continue falling apart little by little (especially since Caesar's army was made up of hardened veterans while Pompey's were inexperienced soldiers), but the Roman Senators with Pompey persuaded him to defeat Caesar in battle instead, to make a statement about Caesar's treason and give the Republic a dramatic victory. In the 1930 version, the civilians have the audacity to dismiss the protagonist's experiences in the war by saying he hasn't seen the whole of it compared to them who apparently know a lot more, as they are sitting around a table, smoking cigars and moving pieces around a map. The Modern Major General in The Pirates of Penzance is so educated that he knows everything about almost everything and can perform several outright impossible feats like humming a fugue. PLUS each issue contains unique interactive articles based on actual historical events in which YOU are the commander who must choose the best course of action for victory!Buckley makes a very good case that the decision to continue the war was nowhere near as inevitable as it might seem. Star Carrier: Grand Admiral Giraurd, a Pan-European battle group commander who is sent to Alphekka to reel in Admiral Koenig in Center of Gravity and pursues him to a refueling stop in Singularity.

Most bot and con leaders tend to avert this, and the one who comes closest to playing it straight is Prowl, who relies on lots of behind the scenes manipulation to get tasks done (he even made a secret behind-the-scenes task force to eliminate threats), but he can normally be seen taking up arms and directing on the battlefield. Tintin: In The Broken Ear, Tintin is made colonel and aide-de-camp by supreme-dictator-of-the-week Alcazar. As a lighter example of Interservice Rivalry, the US Air Force is frequently referred to as the "Chair Force" by the uniformed personnel of other branches. However, to the surprise of several dismissive troops, he is sincerely eager to participate directly in combat and is something very close to A Father to His Men (well.Abandoning Pompey's Boring, but Practical methods would be a fatal mistake, as Caesar's more experienced and absolutely desperate soldiers (who might face mass execution if they lost), ripped through Pompey's forces in open battle, leaving Caesar the victor and allowing him to gain nearly total power in Rome. The book does reserve some scorn for Samuel Hoare, who clearly learnt nothing from the run-up to war. It's worth elaborating on this to explain why Gaunt is so pissed off about this: the armchair generals running the show aren't even Imperial Guard, they're essentially planetary politicians. In the final book of The Wheel of Time, then-current strategists and warriors are worried about this becoming the norm of military affairs with the addition of Gateway "skyboxes" to see whole battles from tents.

But a solid lodgement in France would make it a great deal easier for the US to reinforce the troops, then take the offensive in 1944. Subverted in the semi-literal but not figurative case of the real-life General David Petraeus, US Army (most famous for overseeing "The Surge" in Iraq) who has a fictional version of himself portrayed in The Salvation War. When Father Elijah was Elder of the local Brotherhood of Steel chapter, he was every bit this; he insisted on trying to hold HELIOS One against the NCR despite the fact that they were outnumbered and dying in droves, and the only reason they survived at all was because they pulled a coup and removed him from leadership. Desolas Arterius at one point bitterly mutters that Last Stands always look admirable to those who don't have to carry them out. When the civilians start spouting off their own theories about how to win the war, he tunes out of the conversation.It would be interesting to assess Hitler’s decisions (as well as his Italian and Japanese counterparts) and see how well they hold up based on what he actually knew, but it would be incredibly controversial. Indeed, most of the great mistakes of the past – studied without hindsight – start looking more like the best course of action at the time. The British secretary of state Lord Chesterfield also criticized those in the Letters to His Son: ". Yet in the final episodes it's Sutherland who leads the attack on ZAFT from aboard his flagship, the Doolittle; it quickly becomes apparent that he uses the tactics he does not because he is ignorant, but because he has no regard for human life. So they retreated back to Earth, mothballed all their autonomous war drones and turned to inward perfection for generations.

This is justified, though, in that his position as Supreme Allied Commander required more skill in politics (getting headstrong commanders from numerous countries to work together) than leading troops. Picard promptly barges into the admiral's office and browbeats (pun intended) him into keeping the Hazard Team in operation and has them reassigned to the Enterprise-E.

In Stark's War and its two sequels, by John Hemry, the entirety of the US military command being loaded with this type is what causes the title character and his fellow soldiers to mutiny, after deciding they were through with micromanagement using horribly broken war theories getting troops killed for nothing. Justified in that Ishamael held his title owing to being the Dark One's favorite; he always had generals with actual military experience (most notably Demandred, Sammael, and Be'lal) to lead the Shadow's forces in the field. Promotions can only be earned based on field merits, meaning meaning every T'au military instructor and advisor has spent literally half their life on the front lines in a variety of battlesuits and roles; any given Coalition's Fire-caste representative knows exactly what they're signing the men up for.