Casualties Quote by Ferdinand Foch Download Open image “It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.” — Ferdinand Foch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casualties General Major Takes Train
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the… — Saul David Copy Share Image
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't… — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the… — Jemima Khan Copy Share Image
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties,… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
