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In 1947 West Point officially “decommissioned” all of its horses.

Patton had claimed that the saddest moment in his life came when he stood at attention, weeping, as his cavalry regiment marched past to stack their sabers for the last time.

Douglas MacArthur

"The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here," he co cluded. "Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be the corps, and the corps, and the corps."

…war by ambush instead of by combat, by infiltration instead of by aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him... These are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training.