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This achievement is, above everything else, an illustration, which should become classic, of the maxim that in war the moral is to the material as three to one.

— John Monash

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"Feed your troops on victory," is a maxim which does not appear in any text-book, but it is nevertheless true.

The nation that wishes to defend its land and its honour must spare no effort, refuse no sacrifice to make itself so formidable that no enemy will dare to assail it. A League of Nations may be an instrument for the preservation of peace, but an efficient Army is a far more potent one.

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