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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…
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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens…
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power…
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does;…
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As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.
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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and…
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it…
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally…
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new…
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Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
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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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I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out…
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men.…
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
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The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those…
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Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground…
— J F C Fuller
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Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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