The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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While there's no shortage of General Failures, the troopers don't actually expect the top brass to join them on the frontline given the kind of monsters, daemons, aliens and horrible things with teeth they go up against on a daily basis. Modern warfare is also discussed in the form of "dispatches" (news briefs), movie, video game and war game reviews.

any time Cain has to deal with the Planetary Defense Force high command they tend to be this (in one case, he concluded authority was attributed depending on the number of chins). This was not evident at the time, as Buckley makes clear; Churchill’s war record was something of a mixed bag (he successfully evaded much of the blame for the Norwegian disaster), he had enemies in high places and, worst of all, there was no obvious way for Britain to actually win. From battlefields to the Royal Courts, each tactical and strategic decision you make leads to a different outcome. The Last Castle provides a very good example of the classic armchair general, the warden of a military prison played by James Gandolfini, who is envious of one of his prisoners (played by Robert Redford) who has actually served in combat.In David Drake's Hammer's Slammers, many of the titular mercenary unit's employers are distant from the actual fighting, and often have their own ideas on how the Slammers "should" do their job.

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. The bureaucrats constantly praise and reward young hunters despite their failures, because they’re what’s marketable. If they supported the British, Germany would take revenge on mainland France; if they fought, they’d be drawn ever-further into collaboration and submission.His plans made sense on paper, but his major flaw was his inability to change them, leading to him sticking to his plans long after the situation on the ground made them impossible. The term is also used to describe "a military commander who is not actively involved in warfare, or who directs troops from a position of comfort or safety. The problem is, anyone who knew how to actually wage war died centuries ago and all that exists now is purely academic knowledge.

While the operating principle behind the IOA is sound (civilian oversight of military operations), they are so incredibly ineffectual as to be criminally negligent. Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth: Most military generals and emperors in the series will command from the front lines, and even fight at the head of their formations. At one point, at a staff meeting at his chateau, he has a giant can of coffee thrown away because it has gotten slightly lukewarm, while his soldiers thirst and starve in the trenches. General Colin Powell had a run-in with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the planning for intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that the way each Battle Commander handles his men reflects the attitude of their forces in-game: Karrde's hands-on A Father to His Men style inspires them to fight harder, as opposed to Rawne, who deliberately stays detached so he can apply We Have Reserves thinking to the Nod forces, who in a one-to-one fight get slaughtered. During the New Guinea campaign, he never went to the front lines, which resulted in him repeatedly sacking commanders who he felt were slacking off, when they were actually trying their damndest to get through the worst terrain in the world.