Ferdinand Foch Military Quotes

Quotes about: Military

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Giving, Battle

• Victory is a thing of the will.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Victory

  "The Guns of August". Book by Barbara Tuchman, 1962.

• In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Tactics

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

• A beaten general is disgraced forever.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Forever, Beaten

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

• It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Casualties, Train

• Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Silly, Airplane

  "Time : A Traveler's Guide". Book by Clifford A. Pickover, p. 249, 1998.

• The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Mind

• In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Data

  Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

• This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( épures ), plans ( schémas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Memories, Military, Drawing

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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