If he succeeds, you look like the brilliant, foresighted commander who supported him.
You are a brilliant commander and also a little fool!
If the power of one great nation was to be subdued, it would require brilliant commanders in opposition to them.
The only thing that saved us was that we had the most brilliant military commander we've ever found.
He was also a brilliant military commander, though he never went to the battlefront himself.
As matters stood, under a less brilliant commander, they would almost certainly have been smashed.
He may have killed people by the millions, but he was also a great nationalist and one of the most brilliant commanders in history.
The victory must be attributed mainly to the cavalry and its brilliant commander.
Baldwin grew up to be a capable, if not brilliant, military commander.
Duke Edward was a brilliant commander, but he fought battles, not campaigns.