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Ferdinand Foch Biography

Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch (French pronunciation: [fɔʃ]) (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders, and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916, Foch became the Allied Commander-in-Chief in 1918 and successfully coordinated the French, British, American, and Italian efforts into a coherent whole, deftly handling his strategic reserves.

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To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility ; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.

Art, Responsibility, Mean, Execution, Orders

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

Governing, Leadership, Principle, Sports, War

In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

April, Determine, Finding Yourself, Firsts, Objective, Position

A beaten general is disgraced forever.

Beaten, Disgraced, Forever, General, Military

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Battle, Lost, Acknowledge, Won

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Motivational, Powerful, Wall, Fire, Small, Determine

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

Firsts, Duty, Constant, Inform, Guard

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

Military, War, Mind, Case, Lines, Attack

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Military, Silly, Airplane, Interesting, Value

The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows. Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well.

Battle, Doe, Knows, Order, Simply, Truth

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

Years, Twenties, Armistice, Twenty, Peace

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Conscious, Country, England, Having

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

Doe, Knows, Order, Simply

All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.

Art, Govern, Iron, Truths, Unchangeable, War

Victory is a thing of the will.

Military, Thing, Victory

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Study, Battlefields, Battlefield, Possible

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.

War, Ideas, Political, Amounts, International

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.

Details, Looks, Whole, Drown, Look

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final. Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

Constant, Data, Final, Military, Place, War

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

Develop, Enemy, Fire, Mean, Oneself

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