What famous military figure said this?
Дата: 30.12.2014 20:23:26
f16falcona46, 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."
What famous military figure said this?














