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Tactics
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SPC John Canning pretty much true, never underestimate the ingenuity of the American soldier!
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LTC Stephen C.
LTC Bink Romanick, this must be GEN George Patton day, who said, "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
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SPC John Canning, GEN George Patton had his own ideas regarding practice/tactics, and for the most part, he was quite successful. Some of his better known quotes are:
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity."
"Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat."
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity."
"Some goddamn fool once said that flanks have got to be secure. Since then sonofabitches all over the globe have been guarding their flanks. I don't agree with that. My flanks are something for the enemy to worry about, not me. Before he finds out where my flanks are, I'll be cutting the bastard's throat."
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SGT Robert Deem
LTC Stephen C. I believe it was also Patton that said (and I paraphrase) "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make that other son of a bitch die for his."
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LTC Stephen C.
SGT Robert Deem, I was trying to stick to some of his "tactical" quotes, but you're right, his specific quote was “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
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