Quotes About Wartime tactics

But Hall was not stopping there. The next stage was for him and Drake to send false reports back, using the names of spies who had actually been arrested – a technique that was perfected in the Second World War – to give the impression that they had uncovered military preparations to invade the German coast in Schleswig-Holstein. The purpose was to force the enemy fleet out to defend their coast.

In wartime, the truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

But he did not lack the ruthlessness required of all military commanders in wartime.

There was a danger that the Germans would implement a scorched-earth policy when they withdrew their 350,000 troops, as they had done when leaving Italy.