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Ferdinand Foch was French soldier and military theorist. Explore interesting quotes on first.
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“The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.”

Ferdinand Foch

Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 108
Context: Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry.
The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.

“The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.”

Ferdinand Foch

The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, Steve Deger, and Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 370
Victory is a thing of the will.
perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962

Victory

“To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.”

Ferdinand Foch

Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 83

“In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself.
In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.”

Ferdinand Foch

Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 152

War , Nature , Problem , Change

“In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself.
In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final.”

Ferdinand Foch

Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 152

War , Problem , Nature