Politicians made terrible generals. Soldiers make crappy policy setters. Stay in your swim lane soldier.
George Washington was commanding general of the Continental Army, the pre-independence equivalent of the US Army. The 9 US Army generals were Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Taylor, Pierce, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, B. Harrison and Eisenhower. Others with military experience were Monroe, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, L. B. Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, G. W. Bush.
Granted some were not as good at politics as others but the statement "soldiers make crappy policy makers" is an ignorant generalization.
2) Which category do you put yourself in, great politician?
3) Who died and made you swim director?