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Douglas Haig Quotes
Page 1 of 1Douglas Haig
June 19, 1861 - January 28, 1928
Nationality: British
Category: Soldier
Subcategory: British Soldier
|  Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. | | Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. | | 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. | | Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. | | 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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