Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

- Christopher Vokes

But now I salute you who follow me, It is my time to stand at ease ... content.

- Christopher Vokes

I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as…

- Christopher Vokes

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

- Christopher Vokes

I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion comma…

- Christopher Vokes

Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this wo…

- Christopher Vokes

I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualti…

- Christopher Vokes

The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel wi…

- Christopher Vokes

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

- Christopher Vokes