Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Storage space

Going to save some quotes here.

"The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!" - Georgy Zhukov

"You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in." - Otto Skorzeny

"Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat." - George S. Patton

"My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas." - George S. Patton

"A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later." - George S. Patton

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time." - George S. Patton

"Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man." - George S. Patton

"The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military." - Chester W. Nimitz

"Klotzen, nicht Kleckern!" (Boot'em, don't spatter'em! i.e. Don't do things by half) - Heinz Guderian

"Der Motor des Panzers ist ebenso seine Waffe wie die Kanone." (The engine of the Panzer is a weapon just as the main-gun.) - Heinz Guderian

"Fahrkarte bis zur Endstation." (Ticket to the last station. i.e. Advance as far as possible) - Heinz Guderian

"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows." - Heinz Guderian

"It's simply our duty to save these people, and we still have time to remove them! But it's useless to sacrifice men in this senseless way. It's high time! We must evacuate those soldiers at once!" - Heinz Guderian

"Man schlägt jemanden mit der Faust und nicht mit gespreizten Fingern." (You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread. i.e. you should concentrate your Panzers for one mighty push in one direction and not distribute them over a large area.) - Heinz Guderian

"The true role of infantry is not to expend itself upon heroic physical effort, not to wither away under merciless machine-gun fire, not to impale itself on hostile bayonets, but on the contrary, to advance under the maximum possible protection of the maximum possible array of mechanical resources, in the form of guns, machine-guns, tanks, mortars and aeroplanes; to advance with as little impediment as possible; to be relieved as far as possible of the obligation to fight their way forward." - John Monash

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