[95th Rifleman]

A selection of interesting quotes I dug up.

"Engines of war have long since reached their limits, and I see no further hope of any improvement in the art."

Frontinus, 90 AD

"Gentlemen, you may be sure that of the three courses open to the enemy, he will always choose the fourth."

Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke to his staff

"A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander."

General Omar Bradley

"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know from what you do."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke Of Wellington

"Tanks are easily identified, easily engaged, much-feared targets which attract all the fire on the battlefield. When all is said and done, a tank is a small steel box crammed with inflammable or explosive substances which is easily converted into a mobile crematorium for its highly skilled crew."

Brigadier Shelford Bidwell

"Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates."

F E Adcock

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

Sir Winston Churchill

"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons."

Russian military doctrine

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed"

U.S. Air Force flight training manual

"Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets."

Unknown

"Ultima ratio regum." (The final argument of kings)

Inscription on French cannons, on order of Louis XIV

I've saved the best for last:

"One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."

From a Soviet Junior Lt's Notebook