Army Quote by J. F. C. Fuller

“An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.”

J. F. C. Fuller

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