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Ardant du Picq

Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.

October 19, 1819 - August 18, 1870

Source: Wikipedia

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

Ardant du Picq

Ardant du Picq

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

Ardant du Picq

Ardant du Picq

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them. — © Ardant du Picq

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

Ardant du Picq

Ardant du Picq

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

Ardant du Picq

Ardant du Picq

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Ardant du Picq

Ardant du Picq

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

Ardant du Picq

Ardant du Picq

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