If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises.

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.

The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.