France, Military Personnel October 19, 1821 – August, 18, 1870.
Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq was a French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
Also known as Military Theorist, Non-Fiction Writer
A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.
If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.
Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.
The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.
The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.
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