Mr Bush duly burnished this reputation for such generalship later in the week with a speech on nuclear proliferation.

ECONOMIST: George Bush

The European Union wants to shut the office of the high representative, a sort of governor-generalship, whose power has anyway more or less evaporated.

ECONOMIST: Worries over Bosnia

These officers developed a particular interest in the generalship of Creighton Abrams, who assumed command of U.S. forces in Vietnam in 1968, after William Westmoreland.

NEWYORKER: The General��s Dilemma

Gary Sheffield's study of British generalship works better because it focuses on the system that fostered the military elite, and the ways in which that system responded to the experience of the first world war.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century history