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What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.