Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1- He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
2- He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
3- He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
4- He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
5- He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
Caesar, when he came up to Pompey's camp and saw the dead bodies already lying on the ground and others still being cut down, groaned aloud and said, ‘They made this happen; they drove me to it. If I had dismissed my army, I, Gaius Caesar, after all my great victories, would have been condemned in their law courts.’
Afranius, too, had just arrived from Spain. His bad generalship there had made him suspected of having been bribed to betray his army. Now he kept asking why they would not fight with this merchant, Caesar, who was supposed to have bought the provinces from him.
But his expedition against Britain was peculiarly remarkable for its daring. He was the first to bring a navy into the Western Ocean and to sail through the Atlantic Sea with an army to make war. The reported size of the island had appeared incredible and it had become a great matter of controversy among writers and scholars, many of whom asserted that the place did not exist at all and that both its name and the reports about it were pure inventions.
Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence.
Joint operations
The army and navy should operate, thought Corbett, as ‘two
lobes of one brain, each self-contained and instinct with its own life and law, yet inseparable from the other: neither moving except by joint and unified impulse’.
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