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What famous military figure said this?

Дата: 30.12.2014 20:23:26
View Postf16falcona46, on Dec 30 2014 - 03:44, said: Foch? IIRC some part of French military doctrine went "attack, attack, always attack".

The_Chieftain:   You may be thinking of Georges Danton, "Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!" (We must have audacity, more audacity, always audacity)   Foch's most famous quote was "Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque"  (My center is giving way, my right falling back. Situation excellent, I'm attacking)   Apparently "Attack! Always Attack!" was Adolf Anderssen, 19th Century chess master. However, Napoleon did write "Je pense comme Frederic, il faut toujours attaquer le premier" (I think the same as Frederic (the Great), one must always attack first). I've seen reference to his saying "Attack, attack, always attack" but nothing solid.    The problem is that attack is such a fundamental precept for victory that the concept 'Attack! Always attack!' or derivatives of it, probably dates back to Ancient Greece, if not even further back.   It's slightly different from declarations of initiative, such as Rommel's "In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it" or even as was taught to me in Armor Officer's Basic, "A lieutenant probably won't be wrong if he marches to the sounds of the guns."

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