J. F. C. Fuller Quotes
1878–1966 England
- England
- Historians
- Military leaders
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Also known as: Fuller, J. F. C.
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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.
The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories (1999)
In 1919 I was the sole person who saw war in the form it would be; yet saw it only as an acorn and not as an oak.
Men Against Fire. S.L.A. Marshall (1947)
An absolute doctrine is impossible, for once a doctrine and its articles become dogma, woe to the army which lies enthralled under its spell.
Men Against Fire. S.L.A. Marshall (1947)
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.
Everyone was talking and chatting, when slowly came into sight the first tank I ever saw. Not a monster but a very graceful machine with beautiful lines.…Here was the missing tool of penetration, the answer to the dominance on the battlefield of small-arms fire.
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