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 the desire to evade the price of victory.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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
Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.
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
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…
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
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…
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. - Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
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