Military Officers
- John Baird (revolutionary) (1790–1820), Scottish commander in the "Radical War" of 1820
- John Baird (Royal Navy officer) (1832–1908), Victorian British Admiral
- John Baird (educator) (1795–1858), Irish-born British Army instructor
- John Baird (RAF officer), British physician and retired Royal Air Force medical officer
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“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”
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