“The United States has broken the second rule of war. That is: don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland in Asia. Rule One is, don't march on Moscow. I developed those two rules myself.”

—  Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

Interview, 2 July, 1968; quoted in New York Times, 3 July, 1968, p. 6.

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