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...both cases he neglects with no more than a passing scoff the maxim that an attack cannot be made with a reasonable hope of success unless a number of calculable and near-calculable military factors weigh on the side of the attacker. He cites his favorite General, Foch, who sent a marvelous message to the bumbling "Papa" Joffre before the First Battle of the Marne stating that his center, his right, and his left were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because...
...Colonel Kernan's formula for victory is a return to the slashing tactics of Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Foch (whose Conduct of War he has translated).* His battle slogan is the famed dispatch from Foch at the First Battle of the Marne: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily attacked, my center is unable to hold its position, I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. I shall attack...
...Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand," was Marshal Foch's reply to intruders and bores, and General Weygand, his Chief of Staff, was ever equal to the occasion. It is a matter of record that General Weygand was prepared to sacrifice promotion and all else in his loyalty to Marshal Foch...
...Weygand had pledged his word to one policy, and sealed it by accepting U.S. aid. He had pledged his loyalty to a chief who had now chosen another policy. General Weygand was, above all, a soldier whose first loyalty was to his chief-whether that chief was the indomitable Foch or the plastic Pétain. Maxime Weygand resigned...
...scapegoat by the Reynaud Government in an effort to restore its own prestige. His Army might have been full of slackers and saboteurs (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940), but his previous record was superb. A graduate of St. Cyr, French equivalent of West Point, he had served on Marshal Foch's staff in World War I, was twice cited for bravery. He served in 1926 under Marshal Petain against famed Rebel Abdel-Krim in French Morocco. He was for a while Chief of Staff under General Maxime Weygand, was Vice President of the Supreme War Council, a Grand Officer...