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I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.

— Christopher Vokes Vokes - My Story (1985)

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Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.

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No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

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My recollection is that most of the crap coming out of the trial via the media had Meyer condemned even before the trial was over.

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