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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.

— J. F. C. Fuller Men Against Fire. S.L.A. Marshall (1947)

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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.

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An absolute doctrine is impossible, for once a doctrine and its articles become dogma, woe to the army which lies enthralled under its spell.

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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.

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