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{{quote|A war waged by committee is a war already lost.|'''Ecclesiarch Sebastian Thor''', ''[[Warhammer
{{quote|It seems Field Marshal Haig is making another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.|'''Captain Blackadder''', ''[[Blackadder]] Goes Forth''}}
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* Marshall Murdock in ''[[Rambo]] 2'' was an armchair general.
* Some movies show generals in British High Command during [[World War II]] as heartless armchair generals.
** The generals are even worse in [[World War I]] films, such as ''[[Gallipoli]]'' and ''[[Paths of Glory]]''. ''[[Paths of Glory]]'' especially focuses the disconnect that existed between the High Command and the men in the trenches in [[World War
* 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.
** Ramius also lampshades the trope when he learns what book Jack wrote and tells Ryan that his conclusions were all wrong.
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* In ''[[1632]]'', John Simpson is originally portrayed as armchair military when he cites his service as, "having served in the Pentagon". In later books, it [[Retcon|comes out]] that '''before''' he served in the Puzzle Palace, he commanded a riverine unit in Vietnam.
** Jeff and his friends are fascinated with military history. Of course they take to it like ducks to water.
* In David Drake's ''[[
* In ''[[The Regeneration Trilogy]]'', set in [[World War
* 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 [[Suicidal Overconfidence|was there for purely PR reasons]].
** Worse than bridgelayers- they had Anti-Air and Electronic Warfare vehicles on hand to help battle the Zacks.
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