Sentence examples for general in the field from inspiring English sources

The question is would he have simply accepted the advice of his general in the field.

But what if President Thurmond had gone with his general in the field?

Mark Twain once said to a class of Army cadets, "By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to no one below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field".

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Letting generals in the field dictate strategic decisions didn't turn out well for Mr. Obama's predecessor, and the president is wise not to do the same.

Like his father, he carried out several simultaneous campaigns, using generals in the field who acted independently but who were subject to his orders.

After Allied soldiers crossed the Rhine, Geisel had the task of lugging around an indoctrination film he'd worked on for future American occupation troops, with instructions to show it to generals in the field and obtain their imprimatur.

Questions about where they would go, what they would eat, how they would work and, most important, how they would survive the war were not considered, either by policy makers in Washington or the majority of generals in the field.

In fact, the South proved surprisingly adept at building an intelligence network, using a system of couriers to get intelligence to Richmond and then share it with generals in the field.

It was soon discovered that Tunny, unlike Enigma, carried only the highest grade of intelligence messages between the German army's high command and the generals in the field.

You write that "in the pell-mell race to Baghdad the generals in the field were overruled by directives from Washington, where military decisions were being made by men who were guided not by reality, but by their own beloved myths about what Iraq was like and how the war was going to be won".