Ferdinand Foch Quotes
A beaten general is disgraced forever
Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French General, Percepts and Judgments, 1919
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This dictum has driven blood feuds that have lasted over 200 years. It has also made governance and diplomacy in Northern Albania very difficult.
There was a significant opposition in England who opposed the war against the rebellious colonies. Fox was one of the most outspoken who thought that England would not win.
The military were furious with him and tried to discredit him. But he had won the Pulitzer Price for Journalism twice and his view was read and considered by many. He tuned out to have been right and an uneasy cessation of hostilities and a divided Korea with 40,000 American troops at the border existed 60 years later in the longest military stalemate of the 20th century.
It was this code, and its implementation in Saipan, Okinawa, and other Japanese held islands taken by the allies that caused Japanese soldiers to fight to the death or commit suicide. The prospect of this code being followed by Japanese soldiers, civilians or both in an invasion of the Japanese mainland, was one of the major arguments in favor of dropping the Atomic Bomb in World War II.
Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914–1916, Foch became the Allied Commander-in-Chief in late March 1918 in the face of the all-out German spring offensive, which pushed the Allies back using fresh soldiers and new tactics that trenches could not contain. He successfully coordinated the French, British and American efforts into a coherent whole, deftly handling his strategic reserves. He stopped the German offensive and launched a war-winning counterattack. In November 1918, Marshal Foch accepted the German cessation of hostilities and was present at the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
