The first effect of fire is to dissolve all appearances of order. - S.L.A. Marshall

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The first effect of fire is to dissolve all appearances of order.

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About S.L.A. Marshall

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a chief U.S. Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He authored some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, which was made into a film of the same name.

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Native Name: Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Alternative Names: Samuel Marshall S. L. A. Marshall
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The basic theme is elementary and should be beyond argument: No logistical system is sound unless its first principal is enlightened conservation of the power of the individual fighter. The second theme, in 1949 a radically new idea, as yet unsupported by incontrovertible scientific proof, is that sustained fear in the male individual is degenerative as prolonged fatigue exhausts body energy no less.

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