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* Admiral [[Honor Harrington]]. Actually a fair number of Admirals in the Honorverse.
**In the Honorverse someone has to command fleets at the sharp point even if the bureaucracy is way back at [[Mission Control]]. It is not just an affectation that there is no room for "chateau generalship" in the Royal Manticoran Navy.
***That is truth in television too. While a prolonged commerce raiding/counterraiding contest can be directed from shore, communications has never been good enough to allow that in a fleet action(it has not been tested sense then as there have been no full dress fleet actions sense world war 2. More importantly a fleet has a few dozen ships, while a twentieth century army sprawls all over the place.
***At the same time generals have when they could gotten close to the front lines often because they were subalterns in WWI and did not remember chateau generalship fondly. Coincidently, chateau generalship was as much because of the circumstance of WWI on the Western Front which was one big siege and placed a premium on command rather then leadership, as because of actual cowardice in officers who had after all signed on for a career they knew involved getting shot at.
* Patrick McLanahan from the books of [[Dale Brown]]. Various other characters get promoted to stars without much loss in badassery too. To be honest, though, while he is still a good bomber crew member and [[Powered Armor|Tin Man]] user if needs must, he now spends more time as [[Mission Control]] and fighting off politicians or other generals so that the lower ranks can do their job.
* ''[[Discworld]]'''s Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch and one of the wealthiest if not the wealthiest man in the city (by marriage) by the end of ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', His Grace, the Duke of Ankh by the end of ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', and still giving the criminal element a [[Groin Attack|good kick in the nadgers]] when he isn't fighting off quasi-demonic forces, foiling dastardly political conspiracies, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|or reading to his son, Sam Vimes Jr.]]
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