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Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.

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Christopher Vokes

I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.

Battalion, Believe, Brigade, Fighting, Sitting
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The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first. ""What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need. "I found this to be true.

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No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

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Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

Command, Way, Yawning

Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.

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Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

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