Douglas Haig Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Douglas Haig Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. Douglas Haig | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. Douglas Haig | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Douglas Haig | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. Douglas Haig | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. Douglas Haig | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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