[PW] ? Source of a Gen. Omar Bradley Quotation

[FERGUSON Timothy]

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Subject: Re: [PW] ? Source of a Gen. Omar Bradley Quotation


On 4/12/07, Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>> It's actually almost refreshing to find a quotation which no one ascribes to
>> Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or Winston Churchill (though I
>> suppose someone somewhere has probably wished it on Churchill also...).

>If Churchill had understood that one, not nearly so many lads would
>have fallen at Gallipoli and all the other places he sent them to die.

Gallipolis was one of those Murphy incidents: the main forces didn't land where they were meant to, and it all went downhill from there.  Landing in the wrong place isn't logistics: it really is strategy.


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