“Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.” MenBelieveWarEndsLastsFightingCausesJusticePositionWallRetirement Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.” TakenGunDeterminationMachinesGritMachine Guns Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.” MenWarMatterFactsLinesSpecialBattlePolicePostsWoundedMatter Of FactGreat WarFiringPrecaution Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.” WarGardenSickCoffeeEtcLunchWoundedPercentagesSurgeonsGreat War Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“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.” LongTurnsForceNumbersMoralStruggleEqualInevitableOpposingSupremacy Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.” LossPolicyInitiativeDisadvantagesDefendersAdvantages And Disadvantages Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.” WarSidesNumbersGreaterHigherLengthCasualties Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.” LostMoralBattleMassLowsPossessedInfantry Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
“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.” IdeasWarDesireWaitingEnemyDangerousVictoryStandingFallacyInception Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
