Ferdinand Foch Quotes

French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)

Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Allied Supreme Allied Commander during the final year of the First World War.

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Alternative Names: Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch

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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.

Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.

One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Les avions sont des jouets intéressants mais n'ont aucune utilité militaire