You have got to purge the army at the top. It will have to be a drastic purge, because the spirit of the British Army has to be regained. We have in this country five or six generals, members of other nations, Czechs, Poles, and French, all of them trained in the use of German weapons and German technique...I know it is hurtful to our pride, but would it not be possible to put some of these men temporarily in charge of our men in the field?

What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the intern…

Apparently some fire-eaters to-day have been saying 'Never again must we allow ourselves to get into the same condition of military unprepardness, so we are go…

Economics, said Mr Stanley, is 50% psychology : What we need, apparently, is not statesman but hypnotists, not scientists, but witchdoctors, not confidence bor…

I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to f…

Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swa…