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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; discussing the French army between the World Wars)

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Today in Military History

January 12

1915:

German use of poison shells reported from Paris

1916:

An Order-in-Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War

1943:

HMCS Ville de Quebec sinks the German submarine U-224 in the western Mediterranean Sea

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