War quotes

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

From the opening of the Somme battle in 1916 to the termination of hostilities the British Armies were subjected to a strain of the severity which never ceased, and consequently had no opportunity for the rest and training they needed.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The infantry doesn't change. We're the only arm of the military where the weapon is the man himself.