“Despite this explanation some present-day commentators have come to the mistaken conclusion that the solutions in the book were ‘school solutions’ of the type that would later be made famous by the US Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth.”
“Here lie the bones of Ranger Jones, who died last night, in his first firefight, while applying the School Solution. Therefore, remain flexible!” A sign posted at the Ranger School by Charlie Beckworth, then head of that school.
Good translations are on Archive.org. highly recommended! (I dabble in wargame design, over the course of which I’ve come to admire von Moltke, Wartenburg and the other members if the GGS that wrote books and the Englishmen who translated them).
“… there are no better opportunities for revealing the character of a man than the way he treats opinions different from his own.”
A passage of much contemporary relevance!
I wish we did stuff like this in the US JROTC instead of the picturesque activities like drilling, marching, and outdated physical training.
“Despite this explanation some present-day commentators have come to the mistaken conclusion that the solutions in the book were ‘school solutions’ of the type that would later be made famous by the US Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth.”
“Here lie the bones of Ranger Jones, who died last night, in his first firefight, while applying the School Solution. Therefore, remain flexible!” A sign posted at the Ranger School by Charlie Beckworth, then head of that school.
Good translations are on Archive.org. highly recommended! (I dabble in wargame design, over the course of which I’ve come to admire von Moltke, Wartenburg and the other members if the GGS that wrote books and the Englishmen who translated them).