"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's
One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine...
- From a Soviet Junior Lt's Notebook
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."
-Russian military doctrine.
"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
- from a post-war debriefing of a German General
"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."
-Unrecorded British sergeant-major, (On the definition of strategy)
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
- Ambrose Bierce
"Don't be foolish. They can't hit anything at this dis........." Famous last words or a South civil war general as he was discusing the battlefield with a subordinate officer. Oh quote not complete because he caught a bullet from a North sniper.
Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's
One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine...
- From a Soviet Junior Lt's Notebook
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."
-Russian military doctrine.
"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis."
- from a post-war debriefing of a German General
"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."
-Unrecorded British sergeant-major, (On the definition of strategy)
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."
- Ambrose Bierce
"Don't be foolish. They can't hit anything at this dis........." Famous last words or a South civil war general as he was discusing the battlefield with a subordinate officer. Oh quote not complete because he caught a bullet from a North sniper.
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