The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years. - Ferdinand Foch
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
- Ferdinand Foch
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. - Ferdinand Foch
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective. - Ferdinand Foch
In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. - Ferdinand Foch
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. - Ferdinand Foch
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think. - Ferdinand Foch
Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat. - Ferdinand Foch
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
Victory is a thing of the will. - Ferdinand Foch
Victory is a thing of the will.
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. - Ferdinand Foch
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.
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