ARMS AND THE MAN
WEAPONS A CRUCIAL FACTOR. “I think that the man in the street generally has an impression that weapons alone will win the war —perhaps that is going too far; but that weapons are the crucial factor,” said Captain C. M. Patrick, M.P., speaking in the House of Commons. “But I think everybody who has fought in a substantial part of any campaign knows that victory comes in the last resort only from the age-old process of a soldier on his feet walking into and holding the enemy’s position. That whs true at the time of Hastings; it was true at the time of Waterloo, and it is equally true today. The only new factor is that in order to make it possible for a soldier on his feet to advance into the enemy's land, actions by great fleets, powerful air forces and, nowadays, masses of tanks, are a necessary preliminary condition. It is the man and not the weapon that counts most.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1942, Page 4
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166ARMS AND THE MAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1942, Page 4
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