"We need to send our best soldiers into battle, even though we're going to lose a few," he says.

But I don't send you into battle to lose your lives!

The forces had been sent into battle with nobody in command.

The allies were sent into battle on 28 April 1915.

"We should send troops into battle only when America's security is directly at risk," he said.

"Are we going to send them into battle at the point of a gun?"

But the generals who sent them into battle are long since dead.

A time will come when you must send me into battle.

Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a president can make.

He knows what it means to send American troops into battle.