Country leaders don't command their armies anymore

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for further proof see the results of the battle of adrianople and the battle of edessa

How was Adrianople an example of what was talking about?
The Eastern empire didn't go through a period of chaos. After a month, a new emperor was appointed and that was it

>You will never hear a speech a heroic speech given by your strong, young, and handsome king before you follow his charge into battle

>The rest of your life you will cast a ballot for emotionally manipulative empty suits

It's really not. It just requires a lot of austically detailed planning which you easily just delegate to generals if you're the president.

Have you ever commanded soldiers outside of a Paradox or Total War game?

Roosevelt never commanded troops before becoming president and he won WW2.

Drunk russians and winter won the war.

Stalin never commanded troops before become president either.

>your head of state is now your armed forces' field commander in all conflicts

Uh oh

Wrong. Stalin commanded troops during the Polish-Soviet war.

>which you easily just delegate to generals if you're the president.
But that's OP's problem.

When was the last time monarchs directly participated in combat?

I know John Sobieski personally led the final charge at the siege of Vienna (supposedly the largest cavalry charge in history with ~20,000 horsemen), but I'm not sure that counts considering the PLC was an elective monarchy and he was a famous cavalry commander who got elected king in the first place.

>you will never follow the charismatic Justin Trudeau as he leads your vanguard at a blistering pace to meet the enemy in an open-field pitched battle

And he was fucking awful at it to the extent many people say he's one of the main reasons for the Soviet defeat in that war. Full credit to him for learning from that mistake and not interfering too much in military command later though.

Although one wonders if him being salty over all that was a factor in how pretty much all the other top commanders involved, most of whom did better than him, got purged by Stalin later.

>Full credit to him for learning from that mistake and not interfering too much in military command later though.
*fails miserably in 1941*

To be fair we (UK) sent our prince to war in Afghanistan which is pretty cool.

>he thinks democratic nations would allow such a thing

>Stalin commanded troops during the Polish-Soviet war.
>And he was fucking awful at it

Are you people high? Stalin didn't command shit in Soviet-Polish war.
He was not a military commander or even in a significant political leadership position during it but rather in a more of an advisory role.
And there's not much to be actually said about his advice on the situation.
He was offering largely political opinions and what should be done to ignite the revolutionary fervor in Poland.
Pretty much everything he said in regards to war with Poland has been ignored by Lenin anyways.

>many people say
You mean Trotsky and even then his comments are about Stalin's political maneuvering during that period.
Not decision making (because he did fuck all) but playing people against eachother and climbing on corpses, the usual Stalin style.

Which obviously needs to be looked at through a mirror of bad blood between the two of them. Stalin might have been a cunt but there's plenty of blame to go around for a polish clusterfuck.

That's neat. Imagine being killed by a rocket fired out of a helicopter by a prince of the nation you're at war with. That is seriously a comfy thought.

>Not decision making (because he did fuck all)

He was the political commissar on the Lviv front and all the command decisions by Yegorov had to be consulted with him and signed off by both of them. They received orders to reinforce the forces attacking Warsaw but didn't it so because Stalin refused to sign the orders. That's more creative input than "fuck all".

Now there was political maneuvering and blame-slinging about the issue but it was mostly about the extent you could say his actions changed the outcome and how the campaign was organized in general. There's no question that he screwed up.

>They received orders to reinforce the forces attacking Warsaw but didn't it so because Stalin refused to sign the orders. That's more creative input than "fuck all".
They didn't arrive because Egorov's army was already stuck in combat .

Stalin's "we aren't going to reinforce" was replied by "fuck you, do it anyway" and the orders were signed over his head.

It didn't matter anyway, because once again, Egorov was already stuck in combat at the time.

Stalin simply wasn't in a position to block orders supported by Lenin and Trotsky at the time.

And if he did, it would probably hugely fuck over his career and would be used as fuel by Trotsky later.

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yeah, we don't elect people to go out and play soldier for propaganda purposes so they can die and destabilize the entire nation. they do important things while people who actually understand military affairs take care of it.

What's a leppo?

>>Country leaders don't command their armies anymore
the deep state does

>their country

>Country leaders don't command their armies anymore

Armies don't fight for their country leaders anymore - they fight for traitors.

youtube.com/watch?v=iG0HsKXiUwk

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsaritsyn