Again, incompetent or indifferent commanders regularly threw their cavalry against fortified targets with heavy casualties.
It gave the teachers a chance to see not only how the kids handled command, but also how they responded to incompetent commanders like Bonzo.
He was also incapable of changing a political system which permitted to promotion of incompetent commanders, through nepotism, patronage and the use of court intrigue.
They invaded with great strength, remarkable speed and with the tactics to outwit our own rather incompetent commanders.
To watch his father conduct assemblies, disgrace and dismiss incompetent commanders, was the most useful kind of political training.
It is widely held among historians that he was an incompetent commander.
I'd rather call it as incompetently written as its author is an incompetent commander!
To the defense, Porter was an American hero that had been wronged by a petty, incompetent former commander who happened to be friends with the President.
Paine described Washington as an incompetent commander and a vain and ungrateful person.
I remember that; it was on the orders of an incompetent commander.