It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.