>Stellan Skarsgård says Luthen is a “genuinely good person” and that his iconic speech in ANDOR Season 1 was the speech Luthen “never wanted to make.”
>“There’s always sacrifice, but sometimes he had to sacrifice other people, and that was worse. That was more difficult for him. He was genuinely a good person and he was trying, but like any general he had to sacrifice good people. Whether they were the right sacrifices or if they were unnecessary, it might take years to know for sure, but he expressed that conflict so well in ‘One Way Out’ - what it costs him personally. It’s the speech he never wanted to make.”

Being a good general means never putting those under your command in harm's way unless it sends an essential tactical or strategic purpose--not being so incompetent at intelligence that you have to repeatedly kill your own men to maintain operational security.