National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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