Quotes from Jay Luvaas

There is no excuse among professional officers for not having a 5000 year old mind.

Every commander responsible for executing a plan that he considers bad or disastrous is criminal: he must point out the flaws, insist that it be changed, and at last resort resign rather than be the instrument of the destruction of his own men. Every

The foremost quality of a commander is to keep a cool head, to receive accurate impressions of what is happening, and never fret or be amazed or intoxicated by good news or bad. The

For the value of history, and therefore of military history, is not in the facts it communicates or even in the principals it illustrates. The value of history is that it can provide fresh insight into the past and hence a better understanding of the present.

When your army is inferior in numbers, inferior in cavalry and in artillery, a pitched battle should be avoided. The want of numbers must be supplied by rapidness in marching; the want of artillery by the character of the maneuvers; the inferiority in cavalry by the choice of positions. . .

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it.