There is an excellent line from Norman Schwarzkopf's book along the lines of: "When the planning started for the Gulf War, they told me I had to go and I could

There is an excellent line from Norman Schwarzkopf's book along the lines of: "When the planning started for the Gulf War, they told me I had to go and I could bring only one other of my officers with me. So I chose what any good general would do: my logistics officer"