Unusual "Military" Quotes:
"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance
halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers,
uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not
there accidentally." - Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's
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
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons." -Russian
military doctrine.
..At a prewar diplomatic conference, the Nazi Foreign Minister
Ribbentrop "sniffed" to Eden and Churchill that if there was another
war, the Italians would be on Germany's side!
To which Churchill supposedly replied: "that seems only fair, we had
them last time!"...
"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is
chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis." - from a
post-war debriefing of a German General
halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers,
uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not
there accidentally." - Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's
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
"The best tank terrain is that without anti-tank weapons." -Russian
military doctrine.
..At a prewar diplomatic conference, the Nazi Foreign Minister
Ribbentrop "sniffed" to Eden and Churchill that if there was another
war, the Italians would be on Germany's side!
To which Churchill supposedly replied: "that seems only fair, we had
them last time!"...
"The reason the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is
chaos, and the American Army practices it on a daily basis." - from a
post-war debriefing of a German General