David Galula quotes
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“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.”
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“Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.”
-- David GalulaSource : David Galula (2006). “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice”, p.47, Greenwood Publishing Group
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“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.”
-- David GalulaSource : David Galula (2006). “Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice”, p.47, Greenwood Publishing Group
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Source : "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.
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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”
Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
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“For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.”
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