Quote of the day III

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

 

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur

 

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Benito Mussolini

 

To commit troops to a campaign in which they cannot be provided with adequate air support is to court disaster.

Claude Auchinleck

 

"The bolshevik hordes". -Joseph Goebbels

 

" The task for 1943 is to provide a certain number of tank divisions with complete battle efficiency capable of making limited objective attacks."

Heinz Guderian after being recalled to active duty in a meeting with Hitler on 9th march 1943.

 

"The commander who thinks divisions are all alike will lose battles. . . . One division does one thing well, another does another thing best. And it is the commander's responsibility to see that the right divisions are in the right places at the proper time."

Monty

 

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

 

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar N. Bradley

 

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.

Heinz Guderian

 

He's obviously senile, he's lost his nerve, and like a true Catholic he wants to pray but not [to] fight.

Hitler on von Leeb after the latter´s attack on Leningrad had failed

Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

" You don´t expect me to read the rubbish you write!"

Göring to Milch ca 1942 when the latter asked about his report....

 

" There will not be another revolution in Germany for a thousand years!"

Adolf Hitler in a mass meeting ca 1934

 

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

Field Marshal Slim

 

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Lying politicians!

 

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Curtis Lemay

 

What a sobering distillation of the very essence of war.

Tactics, strategy, planning..... it's what it all boils down to.

Ugly business, that.

-whatever

-Lou

 

*Friendly fire - isn't
*Suppressive fires - won't
*If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid
*Try to look unimportant: the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you
*Never share a position with anyone braver than youself
*If your attack is going really well, you're in an ambush.
*The enemy diversion you're ignoring is their main attack.
*The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions: when they're ready and when you're not
*Teamwork is essential: it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
*Don't look conspicuous: it draws fire.

"Murphy's Laws of Combat"