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[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers. – Robert E. Lee	added by Normando 5 months ago
Generals always prepare to fight the last war, but the Russian generals did n’t even prepare to fight the last war. – Vasily Pavlov	Found on New York Times 9 months ago
Since last summer military intelligence generals assumed a more prominent role as it dawned on Putin it was not a ‘special operation’ anymore but a conventional war, unfortunately, it means Putin’s readying the country for a long conventional war. – Andrei Soldatov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
According to our assessment, this is not the final change, [Putin] really does have problems with the command, both at the top level, the generals, and at the bottom level of platoon or company commander. – Vadym Skibitsky	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This was not an overdose. This was poisoning, and, that's what my message is today. It's to all the attorney generals out there across the state, the federal prosecuting officers, the county attorneys … This is murder. And, it should be prosecuted as such. – Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Mr. President Yoon Suk Yeol, your country's democracy shows the power to be able to deliver for its people, we're proud to say, the generals with me today can say as well, that our armed forces stand side by side, standing on a peninsula for seven decades to preserve the peace and make possible that shared prosperity. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Targeting generals is fully lawful, targeting non-combatant civilians is not, Mulroy said. If Russian generals don't want to be targeted, they should withdraw their forces and return to Russia. – Mick Mulroy	added by AnaDay 1 year ago
The intent may not have been specifically to provide share intelligence with the Ukrainians so they can kill Russian generals, but if you share intelligence that gives the Ukrainians situational awareness, if you help either identify or reinforce, for example, where a headquarters is, Russian headquarters, well, that's where generals generally gravitate, is to headquarters. – James Clapper	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Most military observers and very senior American army generals believe that the Russian army reached a culminating point. A significant aspect of that is the losses that they've sustained. – Michael Ryan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have Brigadier Generals in the Afghan National Army. We have female journalists that have been persecuted. We've got several that young Hazara girls who are targeted to be war brides, young war brides, and we've been able to get all of them to safety to this point. And they're getting ready to make that final jump, i've got the family, the mother and father of an active duty U.S. Marine that is part of this group. We've got famous Afghan media personalities. – Matt Nelson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Birmingham is one of America's most dynamic and welcoming cities with world-class facilities highlighted by the state-of-the-art Protective Stadium, now home to the USFL, located downtown, it's within walking distance to the hotels where players will reside and many other amenities. We can't wait to make football magic in The Magic City on April 16, when the hometown Stallions take on the Generals to kick off the inaugural USFL season. – Edward Hartman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're going into each state -- clandestinely -- and I meet privately with legislators and secretaries of states and attorney generals. – Douglas Frank	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was majoring in Criminal Justice at UGA when I left to play in the USFL my junior year, after playing with the New Jersey Generals, I returned to Athens to complete my degree, but life and football got in the way. – Herschel Walker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The president said that nobody recommended that he leave the 2,500 troops. And the generals basically said, yeah, actually, we did. That is what we recommended. So I think we saw both General McKenzie and General Austin Miller, among a whole host of other advisers, recommend to the Biden administration that they needed to maintain those 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. And General McKenzie flatly admitted under oath yesterday that that is what he said. And the president just lied about it repeatedly. – Ben Sasse	added by MoWali 2 years ago
Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote – Mark Milley	added by MoWali 2 years ago
This country doesn't want generals, figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not, that's not our job. The principle of civilian control of the military is absolute, it's critical, to this republic. – Mark Milley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think we heard from our generals about what transpired … The person we need to hear from is the president of the United States, i mean, this even caused more questions I think for President Biden, which are: ‘You said none of your military said anything to you about keeping forces on the ground, about keeping Bagram Air Base … you said you couldn’t recall it’ -- Well, clearly your generals said they did tell you. – Michael Haley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken, this country doesn't want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not. That's not our job. – Mark Milley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He never went to college, but he was one of, if not the, most gifted writers in our profession, in which his death will leave an enormous hole at a time when our country desperately needs more like him, he never sought fame nor tried to make himself the star of his stories. As sources, he valued sergeants more than brand name generals and political appointees. – John Walcott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Don't believe what you're told by the generals or the ambassadors or people in administration saying we're never going to do this again, that's exactly what we said after Vietnam : We're never going to do this again. Lo and behold, we did Iraq. And we did Afghanistan. We will do this again. – Sohail Pardis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The generals are now attempting to paralyse the citizen movement of resistance - and keep the outside world in the dark - by cutting virtually all internet access, we must all stand with the people of Myanmar in their hour of danger and need. They deserve nothing less. – Thomas Andrews	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Due to the lack of transparency among those in power in Iran, nobody can say how much Mojtaba Khamenei currently influences Iran, but in recent years Khameneis son has had a bolder role in Iran, he has close relations with some prominent IRGC Generals like Hossein Taeb, the head of Intelligence Organization of the IRGC, and with Hossein Nejat. He has a prominent role in the hidden economy in Iran. He has a role in determining the budget for organizations that belong to the Supreme Leader. – Mojtaba Pourmohsen	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Courageous men are those who have walked from far unknown backward villages to come and lead the economists elites, army Generals, cooperate workers in Urban communities – Bwanika Joseph	added by bwani.jose 3 years ago
A lot of it was [ presented ], but it does appear that the attorney generals office had made their own decision about what the result should be. – Kevin Glogower	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.

– Robert E. Lee

added by Normando
5 months ago

Generals always prepare to fight the last war, but the Russian generals did n’t even prepare to fight the last war.

– Vasily Pavlov

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

Since last summer military intelligence generals assumed a more prominent role as it dawned on Putin it was not a ‘special operation’ anymore but a conventional war, unfortunately, it means Putin’s readying the country for a long conventional war.

– Andrei Soldatov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

According to our assessment, this is not the final change, [Putin] really does have problems with the command, both at the top level, the generals, and at the bottom level of platoon or company commander.

– Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was not an overdose. This was poisoning, and, that's what my message is today. It's to all the attorney generals out there across the state, the federal prosecuting officers, the county attorneys … This is murder. And, it should be prosecuted as such.

– Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Mr. President Yoon Suk Yeol, your country's democracy shows the power to be able to deliver for its people, we're proud to say, the generals with me today can say as well, that our armed forces stand side by side, standing on a peninsula for seven decades to preserve the peace and make possible that shared prosperity.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Targeting generals is fully lawful, targeting non-combatant civilians is not, Mulroy said. If Russian generals don't want to be targeted, they should withdraw their forces and return to Russia.

– Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
1 year ago

The intent may not have been specifically to provide share intelligence with the Ukrainians so they can kill Russian generals, but if you share intelligence that gives the Ukrainians situational awareness, if you help either identify or reinforce, for example, where a headquarters is, Russian headquarters, well, that's where generals generally gravitate, is to headquarters.

– James Clapper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most military observers and very senior American army generals believe that the Russian army reached a culminating point. A significant aspect of that is the losses that they've sustained.

– Michael Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have Brigadier Generals in the Afghan National Army. We have female journalists that have been persecuted. We've got several that young Hazara girls who are targeted to be war brides, young war brides, and we've been able to get all of them to safety to this point. And they're getting ready to make that final jump, i've got the family, the mother and father of an active duty U.S. Marine that is part of this group. We've got famous Afghan media personalities.

– Matt Nelson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Birmingham is one of America's most dynamic and welcoming cities with world-class facilities highlighted by the state-of-the-art Protective Stadium, now home to the USFL, located downtown, it's within walking distance to the hotels where players will reside and many other amenities. We can't wait to make football magic in The Magic City on April 16, when the hometown Stallions take on the Generals to kick off the inaugural USFL season.

– Edward Hartman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're going into each state -- clandestinely -- and I meet privately with legislators and secretaries of states and attorney generals.

– Douglas Frank

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was majoring in Criminal Justice at UGA when I left to play in the USFL my junior year, after playing with the New Jersey Generals, I returned to Athens to complete my degree, but life and football got in the way.

– Herschel Walker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The president said that nobody recommended that he leave the 2,500 troops. And the generals basically said, yeah, actually, we did. That is what we recommended. So I think we saw both General McKenzie and General Austin Miller, among a whole host of other advisers, recommend to the Biden administration that they needed to maintain those 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. And General McKenzie flatly admitted under oath yesterday that that is what he said. And the president just lied about it repeatedly.

– Ben Sasse

added by MoWali
2 years ago

Those kids there at Abbey Gate, they don’t get a choice to resign,” Milley said, referring to the 13 American service members who died during the evacuation from Kabul in late August when an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest. “They can't resign so I'm not going to resign. There's no way.” MOST READ House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro fields questions about the politics of the federal debt in front of the House Rules Committee. Democrats back off debt fight to stop shutdown Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan Biden opposes changing Senate rules to raise debt limit ‘As adults, we failed’: New Jersey’s school bus driver shortage grows ‘dire’ Progressives dig in as Pelosi tries to save key vote

– Mark Milley

added by MoWali
2 years ago

This country doesn't want generals, figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not, that's not our job. The principle of civilian control of the military is absolute, it's critical, to this republic.

– Mark Milley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we heard from our generals about what transpired … The person we need to hear from is the president of the United States, i mean, this even caused more questions I think for President Biden, which are: ‘You said none of your military said anything to you about keeping forces on the ground, about keeping Bagram Air Base … you said you couldn’t recall it’ -- Well, clearly your generals said they did tell you.

– Michael Haley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken, this country doesn't want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not. That's not our job.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He never went to college, but he was one of, if not the, most gifted writers in our profession, in which his death will leave an enormous hole at a time when our country desperately needs more like him, he never sought fame nor tried to make himself the star of his stories. As sources, he valued sergeants more than brand name generals and political appointees.

– John Walcott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Don't believe what you're told by the generals or the ambassadors or people in administration saying we're never going to do this again, that's exactly what we said after Vietnam : We're never going to do this again. Lo and behold, we did Iraq. And we did Afghanistan. We will do this again.

– Sohail Pardis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The generals are now attempting to paralyse the citizen movement of resistance - and keep the outside world in the dark - by cutting virtually all internet access, we must all stand with the people of Myanmar in their hour of danger and need. They deserve nothing less.

– Thomas Andrews

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Due to the lack of transparency among those in power in Iran, nobody can say how much Mojtaba Khamenei currently influences Iran, but in recent years Khameneis son has had a bolder role in Iran, he has close relations with some prominent IRGC Generals like Hossein Taeb, the head of Intelligence Organization of the IRGC, and with Hossein Nejat. He has a prominent role in the hidden economy in Iran. He has a role in determining the budget for organizations that belong to the Supreme Leader.

– Mojtaba Pourmohsen

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Courageous men are those who have walked from far unknown backward villages to come and lead the economists elites, army Generals, cooperate workers in Urban communities

– Bwanika Joseph

added by bwani.jose
3 years ago

A lot of it was [ presented ], but it does appear that the attorney generals office had made their own decision about what the result should be.

– Kevin Glogower

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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