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• The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and…
• Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens…
• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power…
• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does;…
• As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
• In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and…
• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it…
• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally…
• What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new…
• Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground…

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