warfare innovation Quotes

In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised

The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

I believe, gentlemen, you have reached a point where you are possibly changing the entire system of naval warfare in the world. I believe that the dreams of Jules Verne have practically come to fulfillment, and that the time is not far distant when by submarine warfare it will become possible to stop every hostile invasion of every country in the world by sea, because of the impossibility of doing it successfully.

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.