J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
J. F. C. Fuller

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
J. F. C. Fuller

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
J. F. C. Fuller

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
J. F. C. Fuller

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
J. F. C. Fuller

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J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

Type: Soldier Quotes Category: British Soldier Quotes Date of Birth: September 1, 1878 Date of Death: February 10, 1966 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: J. F. C. Fuller Related Authors: Douglas Bader Horatio Nelson Bernard Law Montgomery Lord Mountbatten David Milne William Bligh James Wolfe John Byng Douglas Haig	Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body. J. F. C. Fuller In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. J. F. C. Fuller It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. J. F. C. Fuller National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. J. F. C. Fuller To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation. J. F. C. Fuller