Jim Storr > Quotes

“Strategy is the conduct of wars: the application of violence for the purposes of the state.”
― Jim Storr, King Arthur's Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England

“In practice much about warfare is a tension between traditionalism (soldiers tend to be very conservative about what they have found to work, because the cost of failure is often death) and innovation (the value of success is also high).”
― Jim Storr, King Arthur's Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England

“Sociological claptrap also rears its ugly head. When one reads that (for example) ‘Dark Age leaders sought re-validation through the extensive reuse of Iron-Age hill forts’, or similar, one has to question what the writer was smoking.”
― Jim Storr, King Arthur's Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England

“The Deirans appear to have mastered the technique of using fortifications offensively. That is, they would infiltrate forward and dig in, then settle the land they had just gained”
― Jim Storr, King Arthur's Wars: The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England