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It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart

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Military Word Of The Day
2IC
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Second in command


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Today in Military History

April 9



1869:

Le Regiment de la Chaudiere: Aere Prennius (Truer than steel)


1869:

Les Fusiliers du Saint-Laurant: J'y Suis En Garde (I am on guard)


1917:

ARRAS, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 4 May 17)


1917:

VC won by Capt Thain Wendell MacDowell, 38th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France


1917:

VC won by L/Sgt Ellis Wellwood Sifton, 18th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)


1917:

VC won by Pte William Johnstone Milne, 16th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)


1917:

VIMY, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 14 Apr 17)




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