J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

J. F. C. Fuller — British Soldier born on September 01, 1878, died on February 10, 1966

Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO was a British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. He was also an occultist, a Fascist, and the inventor of "artificial moonlight"... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Quotes

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