Douglas Haig Quotes

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
Douglas Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
Douglas 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.
Douglas 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.
Douglas Haig

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Douglas Haig Quotes

Type: Soldier Quotes Category: British Soldier Quotes Date of Birth: June 19, 1861 Date of Death: January 28, 1928 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Douglas Haig Related Authors: Douglas Bader Horatio Nelson Bernard Law Montgomery Lord Amherst Lord Mountbatten David Milne William Bligh James Wolfe	Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. Douglas Haig Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. Douglas Haig Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Douglas 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. Douglas 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. Douglas Haig