The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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While the operating principle behind the IOA is sound (civilian oversight of military operations), they are so incredibly ineffectual as to be criminally negligent. Armchair Generals (and Admirals) are those persons who decide to critique and/or run military operations from the comfort of their. However Ramius also lampshades the trope when he learns what book Jack wrote and tells Ryan that his conclusions were all wrong. Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf uses this trope to try and justify his claim that he is a potential military prodigy despite his tendency of cowering in a corner whenever a fight happens. Attacking the allied Manticoran and Havenite forces, who by the end of their war have cleaned out almost all their bad commanders by the simple expedient of getting themselves killed or captured, and who have spent 20-odd years in a Lensman Arms Race that the Solarians have been blissfully oblivious to suddenly makes it terrifyingly clear to them that the proper designation for their huge fleet is "targets".

Market Garden, by contrast, might provide better results if the operation was more limited, but Buckley believes it would not have made a major difference. They are not surprised the greater part of recognition and advancement goes to officers on the Dry List, and gloomily speculate this is the way the Navy is going, with the inactive officers on shore gaining more and more power and influence. When presenting characters – historical figures – he also places them in context and makes it clear that they will benefit personally from their decisions (or perhaps not – a known backstabber, even with a good cause, will never be trusted again. War and Peace devotes several chapters to explaining how Russia's many losses during the Napoleonic Wars were thanks to various (mostly German) generals, who formulated complex plans based, on scientific/mathematical proofs of how wars SHOULD be fought, which served no purpose beyond turning their mob of poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly led conscripts into a very tired and very confused mob of poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly led conscripts.As these are told from the viewpoint of the frontline troops, high command generally shows a level of incompetence rarely seen outside the Imperial Guard.

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. That's right, the Imperial Guard, the worst-equipped army whose generals include a guy who sent troops under fire without armor or air support, have less armchair military types than the PDF. While Hitler did come up with some effective strategies, he greatly overestimated his military acumen.In one of the films, he commanded his fleet as they engaged in an orbital space battle through the window of an Applebee's. 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.



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