The unknown is the governing condition of war. - Ferdinand Foch

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The unknown is the governing condition of war.

Ferdinand Foch

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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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The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

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

An army is to a chief what a sword is to a soldier. It is only worth anything in so far as it receives from him a certain impulsion (direction and vigour).

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