All Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Quotes
- As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary… Accompanying
- After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to… Coffee
- So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long… Approximately
- Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. All
- Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. Casualties
- Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Battle
- The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which… Attack