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Douglas 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 the desire to evade the price of victory."

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"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."

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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."

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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."

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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."

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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."

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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."

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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."

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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."

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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

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Douglas 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 supremacy is inevitable."

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

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

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Douglas 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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Douglas 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 the desire to evade the price of victory."

War

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