Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas Haig

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Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War, he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Arras, the Third Battle of Ypres, the German Spring Offensive, and the Hundred Days Offensive.

British - Celebrity | June 19, 1861 - January 29, 1928

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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Douglas Haig

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Douglas Haig

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Douglas Haig

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas Haig

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