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David Fraser Quotes

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“Rommel was not always right, but rarely were his errors of self-deception or a refusal to face facts.”
— David Fraser, Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tagged: actions
“Good generals understand that tactical victories don't guarantee you'll win the larger war. But failing to win tactical battles guarantees the accomplishment of nothing.”
— David Fraser, Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tagged: Obstacles
“Uncertainty is relieved by authority–any authority.”
— David Fraser, Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tagged: actions
“Temperament may bring a necessary enthusiasm, knowledge may produce a sure, even an uncanny, insight into what should be done, but the victorious master of maneuver is he whose actions are so rapid, sure, and energetic that they set the pace and direct course of the battle.”
— David Fraser, Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tagged: actions
“No man has ever been more alive to the importance of opportunism in battle. No man has ever been more conscious of time, of the fleeting nature of opportunity, of the rapidity with which the command must act or react. Rommel has an instinctive feeling for where and when a chance of battle would present itself, for where his own dynamic presence would make the different–perhaps a different only measurable in minutes but minutes of inestimable value–between a seized or a lost opportunity.”
— David Fraser, Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tagged: Obstacles
“He leapt at every experience of battle, but he turned experience into military wisdom with his shrewdness and his objectivity. There thus emerged not only a superb man of action but a military philosopher. It was this gift of Rommel's for distilling experience, for translating individual achievement, recollected, into the language of enduring–and universal–operational and tactical lessons which made him remarkable and lay at the heart of his success. He could, throughout life, decide fast, act boldly, remember clearly, narrate vividly, ponder and deduce wisely. BH Liddell Hart described Rommel's genius as combining the conceptive and the executive talents...”
— David Fraser, Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Tagged: Obstacles
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