Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because,… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp.… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
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