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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.
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Struggle Numbers Long

4777
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
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Loss Initiative Advantages And Disadvantages

2398
Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.
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Determination Taken Gun

4311
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.
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War Men Police

4852
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
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War Numbers Sides

3604
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.
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War Coffee Garden

431
Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
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Retirement Wall War

2336
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.
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War Ideas Waiting

4347
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
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Battle Moral Infantry

2877

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