National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
About J. F. C. Fuller
Major-General John Frederick Charles “Boney” Fuller was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, known as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare. With 45 books and many articles, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public.
More quotes from J. F. C. Fuller
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy’s body.
British Army general (1878-1966)
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
British Army general (1878-1966)
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
British Army general (1878-1966)
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
British Army general (1878-1966)
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
British Army general (1878-1966)