Assumptions like those locked the Turians in a dangerous position with no way of striking back at the New Earth Federation while steadily losing after a promising start.

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". 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. The armchair military appears in Discworld a few times, where there's much general critique of this style of warfare. When acting as fleet commander for the Romulan rebellion at Augo, Jim Kirk notes with some amusement that, of course, anything and everything he does here today will be endlessly analyzed and armchair-quarterbacked for probably centuries to come. Using the computer to create it revealed the ship's position to the Ori (Oh, yes, this all happens deep in enemy space, with no backup possible).This is misleading, because the people who made the decisions didn’t have the advantage of hindsight. In Season 3, he's accepted back from his banishment and his father requests his presence for another one.

Students of World War II history, both professional and casual, are familiar with the grand sweep of the military scope of the. Rebuild World: The company of Private Military Contractors known as Drankam is rife with Right Hand Versus Left Hand infighting between two factions: Young hunters backed by the civilian bureaucrats, and the old guard veterans.Examine the intelligence and e xplore eight key moments of the war with real contemporaneous intelligence: Britain's Darkest Hour, 1940; The War in North Africa; Stalin's War on the Eastern Front; The Pacific Battle of Midway; The Dresden Bomber Offensive; Casablanca; Arnhem and Operation Market Garden; The Bomb and Hiroshima. It doesn't help that they're all more concerned with earning favor with the Tsar and proving their pet theories than actually winning the war. The French had been crushed, the Italians were on the verge of entering the war … was it not time, people asked, for Britain to fold its cards and seek peace with Adolf Hitler when Britain still had something to use as a bargaining tool? You do not believe a god may be so battered in combat with his land-hungry brother and sister that he might need centuries to heal?