THE POTHMAN CHALLENGE, BRITS v 21 Pz

[PoorOldSpike]

BATTLE QUOTES

Patton - "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which human beings can indulge"

Guderian -"Punch with your fist and not with your fingers spread " -

Rommel - "Concentrate strength at one point,force a breakthrough,roll up the flanks,penetrating like lightning deep into the rear before the enemy has time to react"

Hitler - "That's what I need! That's what I want to have!" (at tank demonstration Kummersdorf 1933)

MacArthur - "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"

U.S. Grant -"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving"

Duke of Wellington - "The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill"

Montgomery (just before Alamein) - "When I assumed command of 8th Army I said the mandate was to destroy Rommel and his army as soon as we were ready. We are ready now"

Col Cyril Joly -"The more you use [tanks], the fewer you lose"

'Stonewall' Jackson - "My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave"