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It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Ferdinand Foch
A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.
Ferdinand Foch
No study is possible on the battlefield.
Ferdinand Foch
The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.
Ferdinand Foch
A beaten general is disgraced forever.
Ferdinand Foch
The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
Ferdinand Foch
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.
Ferdinand Foch
Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating.
Ferdinand Foch
A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out.
Ferdinand Foch
The military art is not an accomplishment, an art for dilettante, a sport.
Ferdinand Foch
To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk.
Ferdinand Foch
The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
Ferdinand Foch
A radish will never stand in the way of victory.
Ferdinand Foch
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
Ferdinand Foch
In my opinion the treaty [of Versailles] was a bad one, very bad for us. It assured to us neither of the two things to which we were entitled: reparations and security. I said so to anyone who was willing to listen and to many who were not.
Ferdinand Foch
What you must do is to avoid the outbreak of war; do not tempt nations to become your adversaries. The best, indeed, the only means to this end are solid frontiers and an excellent army.
Ferdinand Foch
There you have a country against which the Allies must take well-defined precautions. It is possible that its republican form of government will profoundly modify the German mentality. I devoutly hope so, but we cannot be sure. A well-organized, militarized Republic, however, might be as great a menace to its neighbours as the old Empire-although as yet we have no proof that the Republic can establish itself firmly in Germany.
Ferdinand Foch
The Rhine is to-day a barrier indispensable to the safety of Western Europe-indispensable, therefore, to civilization. ... By renouncing the Rhine as a natural barrier, we should be conniving at an inconceivable, a monstrous situation. Germany would be able to continue her enterprises as though she had been victorious-the very Germany that has sent millions of human beings to death, the very Germany that planned to annihilate our country and leave her a heap of ashes, the very Germany that plotted to dominate the world by brute force-blood-stained, crime-stained Germany.
Ferdinand Foch
[O]ur Allies proposed the disarmament of Germany. It cannot be too often asserted that such a step would give us a mere temporary, precarious, illusory security. It is practically impossible to prevent Germany from arming herself in secret.
Ferdinand Foch
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