Generalship Quotes

“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.”
― J.F.C. Fuller, Generalship: Its Diseases And Their Cure: A Study Of The Personal Factor In Command

“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.”
― J.F.C. Fuller, Generalship: Its Diseases And Their Cure: A Study Of The Personal Factor In Command