The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis?

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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. The men responsible for organizing the Battle of Yonkers in World War Z were armchair military types.

putting readers at the heart of the decision-making process and allowing them, literally, to change the course of history. 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. This is misleading, because the people who made the decisions didn’t have the advantage of hindsight. The book then shifts to North Africa and, in doing so, casts light on the very limited options available to Churchill and the Vichy French. 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.In the 1930 version, the civilians have the audacity to dismiss the protagonist's experiences in the war by saying he hasn't seen the whole of it compared to them who apparently know a lot more, as they are sitting around a table, smoking cigars and moving pieces around a map.

He actually does have combat experience in his past, and he's the one trying to prevent a dubious war. Spencer Jones is Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. When the civilians start spouting off their own theories about how to win the war, he tunes out of the conversation.To the sole exclusion of combat, a topic which he is less familiar with than “a novice in a nunnery,” leaving him unable to “tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin. 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. Being an imperialist, and believing the British Empire was a force for good in the world, was not regarded as a bad thing in 1940 and the idea it would have entered anyone’s calculations is absurd. Captain Smith providing evidence that the Alliance-Hoff War was orchestrated by the King's forces for exactly this type of distraction. But, looking at history from decades in the future, it is clear the idea of a world-bestriding Reich was the stuff of fantasy rather than sober reality.