Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose
Thursday, 14 February 2008
History provides many examples of a British Army being asked to operate under appalling handicaps by the politicians responsible for British policy, but I doubted that the British Army had ever found itself in a graver position than that in which the governments of the last twenty years had placed it.From Ewan Butler's Mason-Mac: The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir Noel Mason-Macfarlane (1972)
Maj-Gen Noel Mason-MacFarlane – May 1940
