Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Franco da kansa ya jagoranci ayyukan soja daga wannan lokacin har zuwa ƙarshen yaƙin. Franco da kansa ba gwanin dabarun bane amma ya kasance mai tasiri sosai a cikin kungiya, gudanarwa, kayan aiki da diflomasiyya. Bayan harin da aka kasa kaiwa Madrid
a watan Nuwambar 1936, Franco ya yanke shawara a kan hanyar da za ta ci nasara a yakin, maimakon yin ƙarfin hali. Kamar yadda yake tare da yanke shawarar sauƙaƙe garuruwan a Toledo, wannan tsarin ya kasance batun wasu muhawara: wasu shawarwarinsa, kamar a watan Yunin 1938 lokacin da ya fi son zuwa Valencia maimakon Catalonia, ya kasance mai rikitarwa musamman daga mahangar soja. Valencia, Castellon da Alicante sun ga sojojin jamhuriya na karshe da Franco ya ci.