Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
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Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (1861-06-19 – 1928-01-29) was a British soldier and senior commander during World War I.
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- A defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
- Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
- Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
- So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
- The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
- Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause each one of us must fight on to the end.
- Order to the British troops, 12 April 1918
