The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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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.

The book then shifts to North Africa and, in doing so, casts light on the very limited options available to Churchill and the Vichy French. It is easy to say, of course, that the reader should always follow the ‘right’ path, but the book is good at making clear there was no obviously right path.He is the author of a number of books including Air Power in the Age of Total War and Monty's Men: The British Army and the Liberation. On top of that, Oliver is so intent on a second, climactic battle at the dam itself that he seems blind to Legion raids taking place anywhere else. Misato shows him Lilith, the Angels' objective, housed beneath NERV, and explains that if the Angels were ever to reach Lilith, all human life on the planet would end.

A particularly infamous thing was the existence of paper armies which tended to have much fewer troops than was listed on paper. The Living Daylights: arms/drug dealer and mercenary Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) is obsessed with the military: he's used the huge amounts of money made through his illicit businesses to create a whole fantasy military world on his estate, complete with custom-built wargame dioramas of famous battles, his own personal general's uniform with a Chest of Medals, and wax figures of (in)famous military figures such as Attila the Hun, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, and others, sculpted of course in his own image. On at least two occasions, this resulted in the replacement getting credit for a victory the previous commander had been on the verge of winning.

Army: Tomohiko and all his other civilian buddies, barking about how Japan has to avenge itself, how Shintaro needs to become a soldier, etc. This is misleading, because the people who made the decisions didn’t have the advantage of hindsight. The Grand Pegasus Enclave of Fallout: Equestria once took nearly 2 days to authorize an assassination of the main character, which gave her the advantage in choosing familiar terrain. It's frequently pointed out in later seasons of SG-1 and Atlantis that the IOA, when faced with a difficult decision, will deliberate until after the deadline so that someone else can make the decision and they can criticize it.

From battlefields to the Royal Courts, each tactical and strategic decision you make leads to a different outcome. T’Sousa is the reigning champion of the game and claims to be “living comfortably, teaching asari maidens tactics and strategy”. During The King in Yellow arc of Legostar Galactica, the Alliance Senate prove themselves to be a bunch of these when they'd rather pursue the war with the Hoff despite A. The men responsible for organizing the Battle of Yonkers in World War Z were armchair military types.They would've ran beforehand but Lelouch the Magnificent Bastard that he is told them they had no choice but to fight and threatened to kill himself and leave them helpless when they threatened mutiny. In recent years, since around 2008, the favorite term, popular in Infantry and similiar units, is POG, said like "Pogue," for "person other than grunt". He makes them come alive as men who could, if they made the wrong choice, doom both themselves and their countries. What really put the nail in the coffin at Yonkers seems to have been the lack of ammunition for the infantry.

The second time he tries to have two agents executed for conflicted charges based on second-hand accounts of an event he was not present at, and then casually remarked about his "brilliant" plan to have agents walk out of the Dino Attack Headquarters very slowly towards the mutant dinosaurs. 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.When a race of battle-hardened alien refugees with gritty war machines turn up along with the Goo — now out-of-control Starfish Aliens), humanity has no choice but to dust off their old machines and go back to war.