‘Command and control! Command and control! What’s that? It’s telling the fighting man what to do, that’s what it is. And that’s a job for the professional soldier. They talk about the president exercising command and control. What is the president?’ He spit out the ‘p’ in ‘president.’ ‘A politician.’ ‘What does a politician know about war?’ He dwelled on w-a-a-h-r. ‘Who needs the president if there’s a w-a-a-h-r? Nobody! All we need him for is to tell us that there’s a war. [Not that Curtis LeMay needed a president for that.] We are professional soldiers. We’ll take care of the rest.’ ” (pp.
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