Geoffrey Wheatcroft famous quotes

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.
-- Geoffrey Wheatcroft

#War #Soldier #Victory

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.
-- Geoffrey Wheatcroft

#Political #Age #Brutality

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.
-- Geoffrey Wheatcroft

#Couple #Army #Thinking

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.