Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for suprem…

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to t…

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompa…

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to enterta…

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each…

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig