Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim quotes

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country”
-- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

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“Officers don't run, only corporals do that”
-- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

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“For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.”
-- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Source : Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (friherre) (1953). “The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim”

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