There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle. - T. R. Fehrenbach

A nation that does not prepare for all the forms of war should then renounce the use of war in national policy. A people that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

To continue to utilize the forces of our Air and Navy without an effective ground element cannot be decisive.

Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will or the power.