When the US had 540,000 soldiers in Vietnam less than 80,000 were in the field.
“Discipline won’t do it, because discipline relies on punishment, and there is no punishment the Army can inflict on a front-line soldier worse than putting him into the front line.3”
― Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
― Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
“Hitler had hypnotized large segments of the German populace with theatrical performances at rallies where he promised to make their country great again.”
― Enemy of the People: The Untold Story of the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler
― Enemy of the People: The Untold Story of the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler
“No authority; no discipline; the revolutionaries of that November found, as revolutionaries generally find, that it is easier to destroy an old system than to replace it.”
― Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
― Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
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