“Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.”

Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World‎ (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.

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United States Army general 1885–1945

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