Don't Fight A Battle If You Don't

Training Errors Are Recorded On Paper. Tactical Errors Are Etched In Stone.

One Cannot Permit Unique Opportunities To Slip By For The Sake Of Trifles.

The Peril Of The Hour Moved The British To Tremendous Exertions, Just As Always In A Moment Of Extreme Danger Things Can Be Done Which Had Previously Been Thought Impossible. Mortal Danger Is An Effective Antidote For Fixed Ideas.

Men Are Basically Smart Or Dumb And Lazy Or Ambitious. The Dumb And Ambitious Ones Are Dangerous And I Get Rid Of Them. The Dumb And Lazy Ones I Give Mundane Duties. The Smart Ambitious Ones I Put On My Staff. The Smart And Lazy Ones I Make My Commanders.

Anyone Who Has To Fight, Even With The Most Modern Weapons, Against An Enemy In Complete Command Of The Air, Fights Like A Savage Against Modern European Troops, Under The Same Handicaps And With The Same Chances Of Success.