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“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.”

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Louis Simpson, born on March 27, 1923, was a prominent Canadian poet whose works are renowned for their profound emotion and unique style. He had a significant impact on Canadian literature. more

“The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.”

Moving Team Military Needed Gun Horse Difficulty Heavy Stuck Portions Vehicle Drag Troops Exhausted Mud Strain Artillery Slime Tractors Infantryman

Author:Gunther Blumentritt

“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”

Ifs Years Two War Certain Fighting Force Five Blood Military Victory Years Ago Flow Destruction Twenties France Germany Five Years Twenty Five Barbarism

Author:Edouard Daladier

“Тhe battlefield in the air will be the decisive one”

Air Military Battlefields

Author:Giulio Douhet

“The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!”

World Stills Behinds Military Six Sitting Army Twenties Division Strongest Allies Concrete Steel Valiant Sitting Still

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“Casualties? What do I care about casualties?”

Care Military I Care Casualties

Author:Aylmer Hunter-Weston

“If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.”

Ifs Men Giving Would Be Beautiful Young Dies Air Land Military Shots Down And Young Man Pilots Beautiful Death

Author:Takijiro Onishi

“In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”

“The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.”

Firsts Home Three Wish Military Blow Rejoice Hawaii World War 2 Mindless Carrier Tokyo

Author:Isoroku Yamamoto

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