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. Pompey was more than happy to keep up The Siege and let Caesar's force continue falling apart little by little (especially since Caesar's army was made up of hardened veterans while Pompey's were inexperienced soldiers), but the Roman Senators with Pompey persuaded him to defeat Caesar in battle instead, to make a statement about Caesar's treason and give the Republic a dramatic victory. At one point, at a staff meeting at his chateau, he has a giant can of coffee thrown away because it has gotten slightly lukewarm, while his soldiers thirst and starve in the trenches. After being named Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, however, he made a number of increasingly bad decisions: halting the German Army so that the Luftwaffe could finish off the British Expeditionary Force, switching from bombing RAF installations to targeting British cities, and having the Luftwaffe supply the Sixth Army by air so they didn't have to withdraw from Stalingrad. David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest is about the decisions of America's military and foreign policy experts under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that led to the US getting bogged down in Vietnam.

Their list of blunders included putting soldiers in hazmat suits that made it difficult for them to reload, not paying attention to the fact that they were fighting an army made entirely of infantry, therefore giving their tanks the wrong kind of ammunition, bringing bridgelayers, not securing the area or taking advantage of higher ground, digging trenches when they weren't needed, using a really big airstrike on just the front ranks of the enemy, and a whole bunch of other stuff. In June 2005, the Chicago Tribune ranked Armchair General Magazine number 25 in their list of "Best 50 Magazines". This is misleading, because the people who made the decisions didn’t have the advantage of hindsight.The armchair military appears in Discworld a few times, where there's much general critique of this style of warfare.

During World War II, the Allied powers (primarily the United States and the United Kingdom) engaged in a number of campaigns in the Mediterranean region, including. The book outlines the problems facing the Russians, then details what might have happened if the two sides agreed on a treaty. General Colin Powell had a run-in with then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the planning for intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Odyssey dead in space, a Replicator Queen churning out little bugs, while four Ori cruisers take turns shooting it. The Solarians are revealed to have a massive case of this when they are finally forced to go into battle against professional opponents instead of random pirates or beating up on isolated, underdeveloped and helpless planets. 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. 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.

Passed Inspection: Beautiful components, tense game play, solo or multiplayer, tons of scenarios, full campaign mode with legacy game aspects, tons of replayability Failed Basic: some lack of clarity in the rules leading to having to re-read a section. 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. The emphasis on deploying and providing for all the armour, artillery, anti-air, and electronic warfare units meant that the infantrymen were allotted just a handful of ammunition each.He's never at the front lines of any battle and at first glance seems to simply be commanding from the back through monitors. Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf uses this trope to try and justify his claim that he is a potential military prodigy despite his tendency of cowering in a corner whenever a fight happens. General Glaive is the new, younger general, and is shown getting personally involved in missions with his private unit. When forces of the state of Wu arrived to assist Zhuge Dan, a general rebelling against their rival state of Wei, the Wu general Zhu Yi found himself driven back by the Wei forces.