The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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Game of Thrones: In " Battle of the Bastards", Ramsay hangs back as his men do all the fighting, needlessly sacrificing the lives of his soldiers in the crossfire of his archers. During the New Guinea campaign, he never went to the front lines, which resulted in him repeatedly sacking commanders who he felt were slacking off, when they were actually trying their damndest to get through the worst terrain in the world. The main character, British poet Siegfriend Sassoon, is very bitter about his superiors' ignorance of the soldier's suffering.

Star Carrier: Grand Admiral Giraurd, a Pan-European battle group commander who is sent to Alphekka to reel in Admiral Koenig in Center of Gravity and pursues him to a refueling stop in Singularity. 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. Despite their interest in the technical aspects of warfare, they usually don't have the time for anything as unimportant, mundane, and uncool as logistics. In one of the films, he commanded his fleet as they engaged in an orbital space battle through the window of an Applebee's. Snake - who spends so much of the level out in the rain and cold that he's capable of catching a cold - grumbles that whoever is receiving the broadcast must have a cozy room with a limitless supply of hot coffee.The Army Game: Brigadier Stubbs, who is Captain Pockett's superior officer, is a pompous 'Colonel Blimp' type who appears to have been in the military since World War One.

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. Proud Warrior Race Guy Worf spots the problem right at the beginning of the episode; since Kolrami's people are so respected as strategists that they haven't been involved in actual combat for thousands of years; they're just coasting on reputation. Armchair General is the INTERACTIVE history magazine where YOU COMMAND and decide the course of action! They spend more time arguing over who should get the "honor" of heading campaigns than they do discussing actual viable strategies.The book does reserve some scorn for Samuel Hoare, who clearly learnt nothing from the run-up to war.