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“Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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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 concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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#Sitting Quotes
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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 his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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“Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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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 economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
Source : "The Second World War, 1939-1945: a strategical and tactical history". Book by J. F. C. Fuller, 1948.
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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 sane.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
Source : "The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories". Book by John V. Denson, p. 488, 1999.
#Kings Quotes
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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 is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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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 ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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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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J. F. C. Fuller
#Arms Quotes
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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; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
#Suicidal Quotes
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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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J. F. C. Fuller
#Air Quotes
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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 and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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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 and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
#Fighting Quotes
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“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.”
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J. F. C. Fuller
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