Military Value Quotes by Ferdinand Foch

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Ferdinand Foch has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
• It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
• Victory is a thing of the will.
• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
• Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.
• The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been…
• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
• Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn…
• This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
• In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.
• Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.
• The unknown is the governing principle of war.

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