Paul Yingling quotes

Paul Yingling quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.”
-- Paul Yingling

Source : "A failure in generalship". armedforcesjournal.com. May 1, 2007.

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“Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.”
-- Paul Yingling

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“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”
-- Paul Yingling

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“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”
“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.”
“suffering is the essence of success!!!”
“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”
“If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.”
“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
“To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...”

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