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Armchair Military

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Armchair Military	comment	Armchair Generals (and Admirals) are those persons who decide to critique and/or run military operations from the comfort of their... uh, well, chairs. This shouldn't be a surprise. There are two interpretations: The Big Brass who enjoy the thrill of moving all the little symbols around the big maps and seeing the pretty colours change, (selectively) oblivious to the litany of human suffering their orders entail. Prone to saying "We Have Reserves" and being somewhat divorced from reality, especially when 'the book' contradicts common sense. Prone to hog any credit for success and slough off any blame, and often inordinately fond of Bling of War. They are almost by definition Soldiers at the Rear, yet have no sense for anything as unimportant, boring, and undignified as logistics. Noncombatants (with or without a military background) commenting on actual military operations (as professional pundits or otherwise) or wargaming past military operations with other enthusiasts. Often have trouble telling the difference between the 'paper'/theoretical and 'actual' strength and performance of forces. Particularly prone to obsessing over the specifications of weapons and equipment and championing their favourites. 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. The gallant idea of a general who valiantly leads his troops from the front line is something that did happen in the past. In ancient and tribal societies, the best fighters were the ones who became commanders, and even later on, soldiers were frequently expected to buy their own gear, meaning commanders were usually far better-equipped than their infantry. Also, in the days before professional soldiers were a thing, part of the job of a commander was to inspire their forces to fight. If applied to modern battlefields, however, this would definitely be a case of Hollywood Tactics. If the tactics expert who leads your army dies in the first volley, the chances are you're going to lose. And even if he doesn't die, fighting with the troops is going to make it much harder for him to tell what's going on or relay orders. Adding to that, if the General dies or is otherwise lost or unable to command, his replacement will be a major wild card for the troops by default. He might prove to be just as good/bad, even better, or even worse at leading the forces. Not only that, but if the previous general is lost before the operation is complete, thereâ€™s no guarantee it will continue the same with the replacement. So while itâ€™s easy to portray Generals as the Armchair types overall, keep in mind there are many practical reasons why they are kept far behind the lines, even when itâ€™s to the troopsâ€™ chagrin. Note that Armchair Admiral is usually an averted trope. Admirals very often work on the warships, and capital ships are floating command centers. They thus share the same dangers as do any sailors, both combat-related and perils of nature. Other admirals instead work at naval headquarters on land. If they are merely incompetent anyhow, compare General Failure. If the commander isn't really doing much of anything, including giving orders, and just sits there waiting for the opposition to take him on directly, he's probably Orcus on His Throne. Compare Miles Gloriosus. A common subversion to a character who first appears to be an Officer and a Gentleman. The YouTube War Expert is a specific online variant. The opposite of Risking the King and Frontline General.
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Armchair Military / int_184dc16f	comment	Subverted in the semi-literal but not figurative case of the real-life General David Petraeus, US Army (most famous for overseeing "The Surge" in Iraq) who has a fictional version of himself portrayed in The Salvation War. He's never at the front lines of any battle and at first glance seems to simply be commanding from the back through monitors. However, he's not unaware of the cost of war in lives, and he is damn good as a commander. In fact, he ends up as commander of the Human Expeditionary Army, although this is because only the U.S.A. has the command/control capability to actually lead a force of its (nominal) size.
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Armchair Military / int_1ba7ddd3	comment	In Maiden Rose, every administration that we see has its own armchair military. In Vol. 2 the brass from Taki's country are particularly obstructive and serve as a contrast to the type of frontline leader Taki is.
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Armchair Military / int_1bdcbfc4	comment	Saga: The planet Landfall is locked in a Forever War with its moon, Wreath. They both realized early on than one world couldn't destroy the other without knocking themselves out of orbit. So the war was outsourced to the rest of the galaxy with the populations of Landfall and Wreath not experiencing or caring about the war.
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Armchair Military / int_230b3240	comment	Admiral James Cutter in Clear and Present Danger is depicted this way.
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Armchair Military / int_26674ed5	comment	Alluded to in the Tanker chapter of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In an optional Codec call, Otacon notes that a broadcast of the Metal Gear in the tanker's hold is being sent out to another location via satellite. 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.
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Armchair Military / int_28a0fe9f	comment	This is Tanya's goal in The Saga of Tanya the Evil, wanting to get out of the front lines and live in the safest place one can be during the war. However, through a mixture of miscommunications, her awesome skills, and God screwing with her, she remains in the front line.
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Armchair Military / int_292fd51e	comment	Last Rights: In the canon Star Trek Online game Kobali General Q'Nel is a hypocritical, out-of-his-depth bureaucrat. He's not portrayed at all sympathetically here. Lyndsay Ballard, formerly a Starfleet officer from a Star Trek: Voyager episode, now the Kobali Armaments Minister, calls him an "overranked bean-counter".
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Armchair Military / int_2989f1b9	comment	According to Into the Storm (2009), Winston Churchill thought this of Eisenhower.
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Armchair Military / int_29b7b686	comment	In Shakedown Shenanigans Eleya accuses Vice Admiral Harnett from Starfleet Science to his face of being the second version after he calls her crazy. She rattles off that he's the author of 32 peer-reviewed papers and a 2392 Nobel Prize for Physics laureate, then asks him if he's ever fired his service weapon outside the range.
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Armchair Military / int_2e833eb	comment	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. In one instance, a rescue mission for a downed Raptor was only carried out in time to rescue anyone because the crew mutinied instead of following protocol.
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Armchair Military / int_319f68cc	comment	In The Universiad, the failure of the First Incursion was in part due to these sorts "commanding" MILNET. Afterwards, GhanjRho had them deposed and replaced with properly able officers.
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Armchair Military / int_35a10945	comment	The Last Castle provides a very good example of the classic armchair general, the warden of a military prison played by James Gandolfini, who is envious of one of his prisoners (played by Robert Redford) who has actually served in combat.
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Armchair Military / int_361e9686	comment	Discussed in Mythos Effect. Desolas Arterius at one point bitterly mutters that Last Stands always look admirable to those who don't have to carry them out. 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.
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Armchair Military / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan the higher-ranking members of the Police Brigade are seen slacking off, forcing the new recruits to do all the dirty work. As said best in Attack on Titan Abridged
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Armchair Military / int_468bebb0	comment	Strangely, the gods of Discworld themselves may be an example of the first type, most notably in Small Gods. They play games with humanity on a board, and have no concept whatsoever that the people down there are real, until the climax, when Om goes up to Cori Celesti, the home of the gods, and forces them to pay attention to him and call off the war.
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Armchair Military / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: General Lee Oliver is disliked by the NCR troopers because he got his position through nepotism and is more focused on achieving personal fame and possible political clout than anything. He considers Chief Hanlon of the NCR Rangers to be a political rival and so does the exact opposite of whatever Hanlon suggests, even though it was Hanlon's strategy that won the First Battle for Hoover Dam. 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. When Father Elijah was Elder of the local Brotherhood of Steel chapter, he was every bit this; he insisted on trying to hold HELIOS One against the NCR despite the fact that they were outnumbered and dying in droves, and the only reason they survived at all was because they pulled a coup and removed him from leadership. Many cite the reason for his failure as having been a Scribe (scientist) before becoming an Elder, whereas most Elders are chosen from the ranks of Paladins (soldiers with considerable front-line experience). However, when you encounter him at the Sierra Madre, it becomes clear that the problem runs much deeper; Elijah is in fact a complete sociopath who treats people as though they are machines, or resources, that can be used and discarded.
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Armchair Military / int_5a9588e8	comment	Admiral Omega in Winged Hussars is a famed commander from a rarely seen species that practically invented the modern Space Navy, and wrote many of the tactical manuals that nearly every navy uses. The Hussars under the command of Alexis Cromwell ignore the manual and kill him by throwing an asteroid jury-rigged with sensor spoofing packages into his flagship at a measurable fraction of the speed of light. Afterwards, exposition reveals that Admiral Omega learned everything secondhand and had never actually fought a battle before.
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Armchair Military / int_5afd9407	comment	In Okuyyuki, the hero falls afoul of a Pentagon general who cares more about scoring points with his politically-correct superiors than about rewarding old-school heroism.
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Armchair Military / int_5b848f39	comment	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. Fortunately, commanding the Surplus Ordnance Department at Nether Hopping, Staffordshire, it is unlikely he will ever have to send men into battle.
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Armchair Military / int_5d354f8	comment	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.
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Armchair Military / int_5d646721	comment	In Star Trek: Elite Force II, one such admiral with huge bushy eyebrows wants to disband the Hazard Team, claiming that the "civilized" Federation has no need of such a clearly military team and that the paramilitary Starfleet can handle whatever minor challenger may come. Keep in mind that this is happening after the devastating Dominion War, where more dedicated special forces squads like the Hazard Team would have been very useful. Picard promptly barges into the admiral's office and browbeats (pun intended) him into keeping the Hazard Team in operation and has them reassigned to the Enterprise-E. When the admiral tries to once again claim that the Federation doesn't need them, Picard comes back and asks the admiral point-blank if he's ever been to the frontier, which is very much more dangerous than that admiral's cushy office.
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Armchair Military / int_61339eee	comment	In Das Boot, the Weser officers have clearly been away from the fighting for some time, though they clearly have no idea what they're asking for when lamenting that they're on board a U-boat.
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Armchair Military / int_61d4e874	comment	Referenced in Conker's Bad Fur Day at the conclusion of the "It's War" level.
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Armchair Military / int_630755ab	comment	Senator Arnos in the fourth Codex Alera book Captain's Fury is the first type. Despite being a figure of authority in military tactics, Tavi notes that Arnos doesn't see the soldiers he's commanding as "real", having only seen battles through strategy meetings or high above the air in an air carriage. This causes him to adopt We Have Reserves-style strategies and try to order the deaths of civilians who the Canim spared as "sympathizers to the enemy".
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Armchair Military / int_645a397b	comment	The British secretary of state Lord Chesterfield also criticized those in the Letters to His Son: "...as that pedant talked, who was so kind as to instruct Hannibal in the art of war." (letter 93)
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Armchair Military / int_67dee1b8	comment	The Roger Waters song "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" is about this in addition to lambasting the news media for treating war as entertainment.
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Armchair Military / int_69092d08	comment	WarGames Defcon 1, being a Real-Time Strategy game, have the player spending the entire game controlling one of their units to destroy enemy bases while defending their own. They get a Game Over if they run out of available units.
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Armchair Military / int_69b389ee	comment	Marshall Murdock in Rambo: First Blood Part II was an armchair general. Of course, he had direct orders that the mission was supposed to fail.
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Armchair Military / int_6cdec540	comment	Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Has a comment on this. While Optimus and Megatron often lead from the front (and tear both grunts and each other apart), a few cons talk of one battle where both of them were sealed inside rooms and had sensory feeds of every one of their soldiers fed directly into their brains to better coordinate the battlefield. One con remarks that thousands of lives were turned into statistics as the two leaders sat in their chairs (minds strained to the limit) directing everything. There is no further recording of this practice. Most bot and con leaders tend to avert this, and the one who comes closest to playing it straight is Prowl, who relies on lots of behind the scenes manipulation to get tasks done (he even made a secret behind-the-scenes task force to eliminate threats), but he can normally be seen taking up arms and directing on the battlefield.
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Armchair Military / int_6e0b45cf	comment	This trope is the entire point of the BBC game show Time Commanders, where random people off the street get to direct historical battles simulations (with help from historians and professional tacticians) to see if they can change the outcome of history. Just to mix it up, a few are given famous victories to try and reproduce.
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Armchair Military / int_701f0ece	comment	The army of Midland in Berserk is commanded by a totally clueless ring of pompous noblemen. They spend more time arguing over who should get the "honor" of heading campaigns than they do discussing actual viable strategies. This allows Griffith to step in and gain considerable social status through, well, actual military merit.
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Armchair Military / int_70814599	comment	A lot of the upper brass in Stargate SG-1 remain far behind the front lines. Subverted because they sometimes get down and dirty as well later. In the first couple of seasons nobody ever had to deal with a Stargate in the modern age for such a long period of time, leading to many mistakes. The best example, however, is the IOA. They make a lot of decisions that aren't logical at all. 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. While the operating principle behind the IOA is sound (civilian oversight of military operations), they are so incredibly ineffectual as to be criminally negligent. And that's nothing compared to the fiasco they pulled off in Stargate: The Ark of Truth: To fight the Ori, which they already have effective weapons against, the IOA decides to secretly build a Replicator (Replicators being the race that was such a threat, SG-1 had to use a galactic reset button to destroy them in Season 8) to infect an Ori ship with. To top that, they remove its weakness to the ''only'' effective weapon Earth has against the Replicators. Naturally, the Replicator gets loose and starts taking over the ship. Because it was designed by the ship's computer, it takes over really fast. 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). End result? The Odyssey dead in space, a Replicator Queen churning out little bugs, while four Ori cruisers take turns shooting it.
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Armchair Military / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman (2017) displays a whole cabinet of them in and around Parliament, none too concerned about letting the war slog on for another few weeks while the armistice is negotiated. Diana is appalled, calling them cowards for not leading their men from the front and turning down a potential war-winning strike against Dr. Poison and General Ludendorff. Hanging back also allows them to be easily manipulated by Ares, who wants the war to drag on and destroy humanity.
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Armchair Military / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko is thirteen when he attends his first war meeting, and is horrified at this type of military. Protesting gets him banished and a nasty scar. In Season 3, he's accepted back from his banishment and his father requests his presence for another one. There, he finds out these same guys and his father are all psychopaths who are obsessed with power and glory at the price of genocide, and decides he can't take it anymore.
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Armchair Military / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Maquis, Part II", Sisko complains that his superiors back on Earth will never understand the grievances of the Federation colonists because Earth is a paradise. Sisko manages to avoid becoming one when he has a major strategic operations role during the early Dominion War. In the episodes "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", an admiral who nearly topples the UFP government says politicians are armchair military.
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Armchair Military / int_74aab514	comment	KanColle oddly plays "Armchair Admiral" straight, but with justification, since conventional battleships are useless against the humanoid-looking forces of the Abyssal Fleet, so all the humans' battleships look like people (and are all-female because all ships are female, naturally) carrying various military equipment instead to match their tactical capabilities. In other words, there's literally no room for the Admirals during battles, so they have to stay at the base and give orders via radio.
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Armchair Military / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, we come across an asari strategist Polgara Tâ€™Sousa playing a version of chess with spacecraft and planets instead of medieval era positions. Tâ€™Sousa is the reigning champion of the game and claims to be â€œliving comfortably, teaching asari maidens tactics and strategyâ€�. She is the Sitcom Archnemesis of Samantha Traynor, your Comm Specialist, and as such, trash talks her about not having enough time to practice at the game, serving onboard your frigate. One way you can trash talk Tâ€™Sousa right back is to praise Traynorâ€™s actual contributions to the Reaper War with her Intel analysis. Another way is to needle Tâ€™Sousa about how useless all those asari strategies were, seeing as how they capitulated really fast to the Reapers even with a whole lot of advanced warning. Either way allows Traynor to deal a humiliating loss to Tâ€™Sousa.
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Armchair Military / int_769da46e	comment	Monstrous Regiment features Lieutenant Blouse, who is a subversion. He has no practical military experience, and tries to do things by the book even when it would be stupid to do so. However, to the surprise of several dismissive troops, he is sincerely eager to participate directly in combat and is something very close to A Father to His Men (well... not "men", per se).
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Armchair Military / int_78cbedd9	comment	Downfall (2004) depicts Adolf Hitler as this in the final days of the war, commanding divisions on his map which effectively no longer exist.
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Armchair Military / int_7ac38ec4	comment	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. 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 bureaucrats constantly praise and reward young hunters despite their failures, because theyâ€™re whatâ€™s marketable. This means Drankam becomes filled with Boisterous Weakling and Leeroy Jenkins young hunters, and since nobody is punishing Katsuyaâ€™s poor command, their Red Shirt Army dying in droves just settles Katsuya with more and more Survivor Guilt until it nearly breaks him, making Katsuya vulnerable to Sherylâ€™s Honey Trap ultimately (indirectly) causing his undoing.
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Armchair Military / int_7cf48155	comment	Prime Minister Churbull has the brilliant idea to open a new front in the war against the Soviet Union equivalent in A Young Woman's Political Record - by raising a local army in the alternate India, very, very far away from Albion, and attacking north, establishing supply lines across some of the most treacherous and dangerous terrain in the world. His idiotic plan instead triggers a Communist rebellion.
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Armchair Military / int_7f87dafc	comment	Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by Captain William Sutherland, a General Staff officer notable for both his banality and Moral Event Horizon-crossing strategies. Sutherland seems like an armchair admiral who can only recommend the strategies he does because he's never actually seen combat. Yet in the final episodes it's Sutherland who leads the attack on ZAFT from aboard his flagship, the Doolittle; it quickly becomes apparent that he uses the tactics he does not because he is ignorant, but because he has no regard for human life.
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Armchair Military / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings Sauron is a powerful fallen angel with no one to match his strength in all Middle Earth, but he refuses to take the field of battle himself and relies on his army of orcs and Easterlings to achieve his goals.
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Armchair Military / int_80fd41f1	comment	In The Regeneration Trilogy, set in World War I, this idea is always in the background as the death toll goes up. The main character, British poet Siegfriend Sassoon, is very bitter about his superiors' ignorance of the soldier's suffering.
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Armchair Military / int_81692f99	comment	In Star Trek, almost anybody in Starfleet Command has been away from the sharp end for far too long. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Maquis, Part II", Sisko complains that his superiors back on Earth will never understand the grievances of the Federation colonists because Earth is a paradise. Sisko manages to avoid becoming one when he has a major strategic operations role during the early Dominion War. In the episodes "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", an admiral who nearly topples the UFP government says politicians are armchair military. Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Peak Performance", the ship is visited by a master strategist named Kolrami who is unbeatable in terms of theory and games, but once the ship suddenly finds itself in a real battle, his only solution is to cut and run. Picard, the seasoned captain, is the one who comes up with a gambit to win the day. 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.
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Armchair Military / int_82ff90e9	comment	The scene from All Quiet on the Western Front mentioned under Film is taken directly from the novel.
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Armchair Military / int_87b652bb	comment	In Starcraft II, Tychus will sometimes insult you for this. He retains this line in Heroes of the Storm.
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Armchair Military / int_8d814070	comment	Anyone perceived as armchair military by MASH character Hawkeye was in for an interesting time.*
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Armchair Military / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome depicts these as having been the downfall of Pompey and his army in the civil war with Caesar. Pompey's forces significantly outnumbered Caesar's and had them stuck in a siege, which left Caesar's forces falling to disease, starvation, and desertion while Pompey's better supplied men ate and carried on with relative comfort. 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. Abandoning Pompey's Boring, but Practical methods would be a fatal mistake, as Caesar's more experienced and absolutely desperate soldiers (who might face mass execution if they lost), ripped through Pompey's forces in open battle, leaving Caesar the victor and allowing him to gain nearly total power in Rome.
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Armchair Military / int_9045b1b7	comment	The men responsible for organizing the Battle of Yonkers in World War Z were armchair military types. 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. It's torn to shreds by the man being interviewed in the story, saying that most of the inappropriately chosen stuff was there for purely PR reasons. Worse than bridgelayers — they had Anti-Air and Electronic Warfare vehicles on hand to help battle the Zacks. What really put the nail in the coffin at Yonkers seems to have been the lack of ammunition for the infantry. 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. The contrast with the all-infantry clean-up forces deployed to take back the country — who use the only vehicles they have to transport a veritable mountain of ammunition for each and every trooper — is stark.
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Armchair Military / int_90f18253	comment	In Battletech, there are some armchair generals in some of the Inner Sphere Great House militaries, but the most badly-affected faction is the Lyran Commonwealth, as the meme of the Lyran Social General attests to. A particularly infamous thing was the existence of paper armies which tended to have much fewer troops than was listed on paper.
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Armchair Military / int_90f42a9b	comment	In the final book of The Wheel of Time, then-current strategists and warriors are worried about this becoming the norm of military affairs with the addition of Gateway "skyboxes" to see whole battles from tents. In the backstory, Ishamael officially held the position of chief captain-general of the Shadow's forces, despite being a scholar, philosopher, and channeler who'd never actually led troops in battle in his life. Justified in that Ishamael held his title owing to being the Dark One's favorite; he always had generals with actual military experience (most notably Demandred, Sammael, and Be'lal) to lead the Shadow's forces in the field.
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Armchair Military / int_92ac8bc0	comment	In Xenonauts, the splash screen features several high-ranking members of staff, discussing a map. Naturally, they are quite far from the alien war experience.
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Armchair Military / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: In The Broken Ear, Tintin is made colonel and aide-de-camp by supreme-dictator-of-the-week Alcazar. When another colonel points out that maybe this is a bit hasty, as Alcazar's army has 3,483 colonels for 27 corporals, and suggests appointing a new corporal instead, Alcazar agrees... and demotes that colonel to corporal.
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Armchair Military / int_a183d57f	comment	Zapp Brannigan in Futurama is fond of this command style. In one of the films, he commanded his fleet as they engaged in an orbital space battle through the window of an Applebee's.
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Armchair Military / int_a3afd135	comment	In HMS Leviathan, a novel about the peacetime Royal Navy, the seagoing officers who have active commands note the bi-annual promotion list is segregated between the "Wet List" note active officers on board ships and the "Dry List".note Officers on shore or rear-echelon duties. 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.
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Armchair Military / int_a419e814	comment	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 far greater existential threat to the entire universe that the King in Yellow poses and B. Captain Smith providing evidence that the Alliance-Hoff War was orchestrated by the King's forces for exactly this type of distraction. Fortunately for Bob and his crew, Admiral Graves and President Weyland are Reasonable Authority Figures willing to give him some support; Graves assigns several Alliance Navy ships including his own personal flagship to Captain Smith's taskforce, and Weyland refuses to take any steps to stop them in the face of the Senate's cries for their removal.
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Armchair Military / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Lelouch pointedly averts this trope in Code Geass. "If a general does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow?" While he isn't necessarily on the front lines, he is personally present at nearly every battle he commands. He takes this philosophy to such an extreme that his chess strategies often involve the king being right out with the rest of the pieces, making offensive moves. Hilariously this doesn't or barely works since his troops are prone to threatening him and running if the battle isn't going in their favor. This is why Lelouch turns the Black Knights into a military force because in his second major battle his troops ran. In the third major battle? 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.
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Armchair Military / int_a6658fee	comment	Subverted in The Hunt for Red October. Jack Ryan is an author of books on naval history and a CIA analyst, but he winds up rolling up his sleeves and going face-to-face with Captain Ramius. However Ramius also lampshades the trope when he learns what book Jack wrote and tells Ryan that his conclusions were all wrong. However, Ryan was actually in the military, a U.S. Marine. The novels and movies tell slightly different stories on how his career ended, but agree that his career ended right at the start when he survived a helicopter crash that left him partially disabled. In both the movie and the book, it is Captain Ramius and Captain Mancuso who do the submarine tactics in the battle at the end, while Ryan gets to turn the wheel whichever way they say and pray to God that he doesn't die.
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Armchair Military / int_aaa65d7e	comment	Rebuild of Evangelion: Shinji criticizes Misato (and the rest of NERV's command staff) of this near the end of the first movie, asking how it's fair that he's the only one risking his life. 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. She goes on to say that, therefore, NERV's command staff is hardly "safe": if Shinji and the other Eva pilots were to fail in their mission, everyone will die anyway, so they're all risking their lives together. This manages to convince Shinji.
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Armchair Military / int_aca14883	comment	By definition, the Battle Commanders in Tiberium Wars have to command in this way, standing far off from the battlefield and issuing complex, often micromanaging orders to their units in the field. Both of the Commanders, however, get brushes with front line action and are no slouches in personal combat, and the GDI Commander, Karrde, deliberately goes out into the field with his troops and commands close to the front to earn their respect. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize that the way each Battle Commander handles his men reflects the attitude of their forces in-game: Karrde's hands-on A Father to His Men style inspires them to fight harder, as opposed to Rawne, who deliberately stays detached so he can apply We Have Reserves thinking to the Nod forces, who in a one-to-one fight get slaughtered.
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Armchair Military / int_afc86b0a	comment	Played with in Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Ender realizes he was sending real pilots into battle while he himself stayed safe, thinking it was all a simulation. It's both a plot point and the basis of the sequel that, had he known, he couldn't have done it. Speaker for the Dead is spent trying to make up for what he has done.
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Armchair Military / int_b1796a38	comment	In Patlabor 2: The Movie the civilian government and police act this way, undermine their control over the military, and allow the terrorists to attack Tokyo.
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Armchair Military / int_b30ae4db	comment	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. This puts him at odds with both his Good Counterpart, Jon, and his brute, Smalljon Umber, who both fight on the frontline, as well as Jon's follower, Davos, who explicitly stops his men from firing arrows on their own men. Later, as soon as the battle goes against him, Ramsay beats a hasty retreat to Winterfell.
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Armchair Military / int_b3686017	comment	Army: Tomohiko and all his other civilian buddies, barking about how Japan has to avenge itself, how Shintaro needs to become a soldier, etc. In one particularly absurd scene Tomohiko and his friend get into a heated argument about whether or not Japan really needed the "divine wind"—aka "kamikaze"—to escape being conquered by the Mongol Empire.
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Armchair Military / int_b91fac15	comment	Brigadier General Quintard (John Travolta) in The Thin Red Line.
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Armchair Military / int_bbb0c496	comment	Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth: Most military generals and emperors in the series will command from the front lines, and even fight at the head of their formations. Pillar General Raikou of Yamato is one of the few exceptions. It's noted that he has almost no combat ability himself, but he's a genius tactician whose strategies have lead Yamato's armies to victory time and time again, so he doesn't get too much grief for this.
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Armchair Military / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Planetary Defense Forces are generally held in contempt by the Guard, since they're usually made up of whoever the Guard didn't feel was worth training, the closest thing to elite forces are palace guards who can put down a peasant revolt and not much else, and their leaders are the kind of inbred aristocrats who couldn't devise an exit strategy out of a paper bag. Zigzagged in regard to the Imperial Guard. While there's no shortage of General Failures, the troopers don't actually expect the top brass to join them on the frontline given the kind of monsters, daemons, aliens and horrible things with teeth they go up against on a daily basis. And then you have Commander Kubrik Chenkov, whose only strategy is to throw more men at the enemy without armor or artillery support, whether the goal is to take a fortress or clear a minefield. This somehow succeeds despite losses that are horrifically high for the Imperial Guard and gets Chenkov another medal for every gruesome victory. To his credit, Chenkov does not simply order a few thousand more recruits and call it a day- he's right there on the field to participate in killing the Emperor's enemies and "encourage" his troopers (it's said that his bolt pistol has felled more cowards than it has heretics). While orks and Chaos commanders are pretty much always found on the battlefield due to their Asskicking Leads to Leadership and Klingon Promotion tendencies, some of them are smart enough to delegate to their underlings (said underlings should take care not to get too successful). The T'au play with this somewhat. The only way a soldier can even apply to retire to the rear echelons is to have served an exemplary four years at Shas'o rank. Promotions can only be earned based on field merits, meaning meaning every T'au military instructor and advisor has spent literally half their life on the front lines in a variety of battlesuits and roles; any given Coalition's Fire-caste representative knows exactly what they're signing the men up for. On the other hand, while the ruling Etheral caste (who sometimes deploy to the field in a leadership capacity but rarely engage the enemy directly) do genuinely listen to the advice of Caste representatives, they have been known to make proclamations somewhat bolder than the advising Coalition suggested, typically leading to some quiet eye-rolling and rapid brainstorming on how to meet the new quotas.
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Armchair Military / int_bf42e29d	comment	General Reza Zaydan in Hitman (2016) is stated to lack any actual combat experience and earned his position through a mixture of wealth and nepotism. Like all targets, if 47 confronts him openly, he won't fight back and instead insults and threatens him.
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Armchair Military / int_c0d295c4	comment	The trope name is often used as an insult for obsessive strategy types in online shooter games like Team Fortress 2. "All hail X! Our fearless armchair general!"
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Armchair Military / int_c2ef4b61	comment	Brawl in the Family compares the Fire Emblem tactican, who values the life of every unit, to the Advance Wars tactician, who "can always buy more troops."
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Armchair Military / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder Goes Forth: Played horrifically straight in the Finale. While the first three seasons do make a few jokes about armchair generals across history (particularly the third one), the fourth and final season is entirely devoted to this trope. It is basically a magnificent take-that towards ruthless, uncaring military commanders who lead from behind and forget that they're sending people to fight and die. The British top brass of the Great War are depicted as insane, childish, ignorant idiots who run almost entirely on Insane Troll Logic, sending millions to die so that they can move their desks a few inches closer to Berlin, as evidenced from this quote after a successful push forward in "Private Plane". The page image comes from the finale "Goodbyeee". After Blackadder's latest plan to get away from the front (by feigning insanity) fails, he decides to call in a favor from Field Marshal Haig, the British Commander-in-Chief, for saving his life years ago. Haig is shown at his headquarters to be playing with toy soldiers and discarding them with a dustpan, demonstrating zero concern for the soldiers under his command. The method he proposes for Blackadder to be relieved is the same one he tried at the start of the episode.
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Armchair Military / int_c77f330e	comment	Offscreen in Remembrance of the Fallen, Tiana Lanstar overheard some random civilian saying he could've come out of the situation her brother died in against the Orion Syndicate with his skin intact. She had to be pulled off him by the San Francisco police.
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Armchair Military / int_c7fbcf5f	comment	Admiral Lord Hood in Horatio Hornblower. He's the one who represents the Admiralty, sends Captain Pellew's Indefatigable and three other ships to sail to France, but he himself stays in London. He does not abort the mission when a copy of General Charette's plan gets stolen, probably by spies, and very likely falls to enemy hands. He also insists that General Charette should not be informed about the incident. Pellew is disgusted that men (and among those are his own men for whose lives he feels responsible) are sent to die in a doomed mission. The most he does in response is to order Pellew to stay on post in case something goes wrong (Which Pellew notes means that there is one ship being left behind to evacuate four ship loads of soldiers, so if the mission fails, it is expected to suffer a minimum of 75% casualties).
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Armchair Military / int_c832776	comment	Yuna Roma Seiran of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny thinks he's a brilliant strategist because of his experience with war games. In practice, he makes General Failure Lord Djibril (who at least has a certain ruthlessness to commend him) look brilliant. Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by Captain William Sutherland, a General Staff officer notable for both his banality and Moral Event Horizon-crossing strategies. Sutherland seems like an armchair admiral who can only recommend the strategies he does because he's never actually seen combat. Yet in the final episodes it's Sutherland who leads the attack on ZAFT from aboard his flagship, the Doolittle; it quickly becomes apparent that he uses the tactics he does not because he is ignorant, but because he has no regard for human life. Muruta Azrael also counts he sits back and watches the carnage his forces unleash, but should things go wrong he starts throwing hissy fits to the one in charge, and he demands his forces to keep on attacking no matter what.
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Armchair Military / int_cdfc31e1	comment	In Stark's War and its two sequels, by John Hemry, the entirety of the US military command being loaded with this type is what causes the title character and his fellow soldiers to mutiny, after deciding they were through with micromanagement using horribly broken war theories getting troops killed for nothing. The technology of the setting makes it worse â€” every soldier has Powered Armor with permanently-on communication links, so the senior officers can be virtually present to (incompetently) micromanage troops even in heat of action.
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Armchair Military / int_cfb3439a	comment	BrÃ¼tal Legend has an achievment called "Armchair General". It can only be obtained if the player wins a battle by only giving orders.
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Armchair Military / int_da73059	comment	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. However, Whitaker never served a day in any organized military: he was expelled from West Point for cheating and, while he did see some combat as a mercenary in the Belgian Congo, he pretty quickly left that life behind to make bigger money for less risk in the weapons trade. His Soviet foil, General Pushkin, is quick to call Whitaker out about his posturing.
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Armchair Military / int_dc4c68bb	comment	General Damon from Valkyria Chronicles and his top brass commanders never take part of the fighting itself, show racism to Darcen soldiers, and overall are terrible commanders. It's no wonder that they are rather unpopular among fans.
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Armchair Military / int_de8ae019	comment	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. Koenig exposits that Giraurd had made it to admiral mostly on political and family influence and had never actually seen combat.
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Armchair Military / int_e235270c	comment	Generals in Stellaris may have the "Armchair Commander" trait, which confers a slight penalty to damage and morale to armies under their command, since they're leading from the rear - possibly even from orbit, while their troops fight planetside.
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Armchair Military / int_e293455a	comment	The Watcher's Council in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is this at its worst. Many see themselves as the real heroes fighting the real fight and Slayers as just the tools they use. The fact that a new Slayer will be called whenever one dies does not help, as it enforces the mentality of We Have Reserves to the point where they treat the girls as wholly expendable.
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Armchair Military / int_e365af07	comment	Elite Agent French Fries in Dino Attack RPG certainly qualifies. In his first appearance he casually orders Zenna to expose globally a top-secret mission and remains totally oblivious after it causes massive riots and provides an opportunity for genocidal maniac Cam O'Cozy. 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. He was even described having a handlebar mustache just to give his character this feel.
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Armchair Military / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!): any time Cain has to deal with the Planetary Defense Force high command they tend to be this (in one case, he concluded authority was attributed depending on the number of chins). That's right, the Imperial Guard, the worst-equipped army whose generals include a guy who sent troops under fire without armor or air support, have less armchair military types than the PDF.
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Armchair Military / int_e6e72f96	comment	The overweight General Miller from In the Loop is frequently accused of being an armchair general because he has spent the last 15 years at The Pentagon and away from combat. Miller is appropriately insulted by the accusation. He actually does have combat experience in his past, and he's the one trying to prevent a dubious war. His hawk opponents, on the other hand, have no military experience and are trying to start a war for political reasons.
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Armchair Military / int_e8c1a9e4	comment	Briefly discussed in Republic Commando: Order 66. Clone commandos Corr and Niner discuss the placement of the power packs on their DC-17m Swiss-Army Weapons, Corr noting that it jutting out of the left side of the gun prevents them from holstering it on the right and wondering who thought that was a good idea. Niner comes to the conclusion that it was designed that way to allow for faster reloads, going by the logic of someone who has and will never actually carry and fire one.
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Armchair Military / int_e9ce372	comment	In Outlander Leander, unusual circumstances have led Nagdecht to have two generals. General Glaive is the new, younger general, and is shown getting personally involved in missions with his private unit. When asked where General Oske is, however, General Glaive states, "At the castle, where he always is", suggesting Oske is an Armchair General.
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Armchair Military / int_ea85bebc	comment	In Always Coming Home, the Dayao Glorious Leader never left his palace, yet everyone was expected to follow his orders without questions, including in military campaigns. It works about as well as it sounds.
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Armchair Military / int_ed0165b2	comment	War and Peace devotes several chapters to explaining how Russia's many losses during the Napoleonic Wars were thanks to various (mostly German) generals, who formulated complex plans based, on scientific/mathematical proofs of how wars SHOULD be fought, which served no purpose beyond turning their mob of poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly led conscripts into a very tired and very confused mob of poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly led conscripts. 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. While there is an element of truth in some cases, especially General Phull (who couldn't be bothered to learn Russian despite living there for five years before the 1812 invasion, as the language at the court was French anyway), the somewhat xenophobic Leo Tolstoy does tend to tar all "Germans" (some of whom were actually from the Baltic provinces of Russia) with the same brush, even maligning some of those who made the sensible suggestion that the Russian army should retreat in front of Napoleon's until the latter was reduced through lack of supplies, sicknesses etc. Many of the germanophobe Russian officers on the other hand advocated trying to stop Napoleon's army in pitched battles, even in the early phases of the campaign when it heavily outnumbered and was better led than the Russian one.
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Armchair Military / int_f120845f	comment	In the Kingdom of Loathing, the Orcish Frat Boy Army is led by Armchair Quarterbacks who shout orders at the television screen the faraway battle. Less literally, their superiors are the Orcish equivalent of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant legacy students. This trope is actually spoofed more than anything else as you do fight them and they are a little stronger than the soldiers. Furthermore, all of them are led by The Man himself, which you can fight.
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Armchair Military / int_f5a4d814	comment	And that's nothing compared to the fiasco they pulled off in Stargate: The Ark of Truth: To fight the Ori, which they already have effective weapons against, the IOA decides to secretly build a Replicator (Replicators being the race that was such a threat, SG-1 had to use a galactic reset button to destroy them in Season 8) to infect an Ori ship with. To top that, they remove its weakness to the ''only'' effective weapon Earth has against the Replicators. Naturally, the Replicator gets loose and starts taking over the ship. Because it was designed by the ship's computer, it takes over really fast. 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). End result? The Odyssey dead in space, a Replicator Queen churning out little bugs, while four Ori cruisers take turns shooting it.
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Armchair Military / int_f5c28dbb	comment	1632: John Simpson is originally portrayed as armchair military when he cites his service as, "having served in the Pentagon". In later books, it comes out that before he served in the Puzzle Palace, he commanded a riverine unit in The Vietnam War. He even lost a leg. Jeff and his friends are fascinated with military history. Of course they take to it like ducks to water.
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Armchair Military / int_f74b5f80	comment	In the Babylon 5 episode "And Now for a Word", Sheridan refers to armchair quarterbacking from the Senate.
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Armchair Military / int_fd0b756	comment	Another, much more affectionate, replacement for "REMF" is "FOBbits", soldiers who rarely leave the Forward Operating Base. The affection has much to do with the fact that physical security of FOBs was good during the Iraq and Afganistan Wars, thanks in part to FOBbits being somewhat more on the ball than the REMFs of the Vietnam War.
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Armchair Military / int_fe24dd6f	comment	Flagg from Medal of Honor (2010) is unworried by avoidable losses of his own and Afghan forces. Driven home by the fact that he appears for the entire game wearing a civilian suit in constrast to all the other soldiers in the game.
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Armchair Military / int_ff04a417	comment	In Grey Goo (2015), the human race spent ages searching the galaxy for alien life (and they invented the Grey Goo to help them in their search) only to find nothing. So they retreated back to Earth, mothballed all their autonomous war drones and turned to inward perfection for generations. 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. The problem is, anyone who knew how to actually wage war died centuries ago and all that exists now is purely academic knowledge.
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Armchair Military / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Peak Performance", the ship is visited by a master strategist named Kolrami who is unbeatable in terms of theory and games, but once the ship suddenly finds itself in a real battle, his only solution is to cut and run. Picard, the seasoned captain, is the one who comes up with a gambit to win the day. 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.
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