From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Ethics & Isaac Asimov
Date: 1999/01/20
Date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36A6543E.FA084AC9@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7858kv$kdt$1@news.campus.mci.net
Larry Elmore wrote:
> > "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
> >
> > -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
> >Superieure
> > de Guerre.
>
> IIRC, he was Colonel Foch when he made this statement. He only became a
> Marshal of France well after the start of WWI, didn't he?
>
You've got me there. The quote was given to me to add to my long
collection of quotes and I simply took it for granted that it was
accurately attributed. I have little knowledge of French military
history.
MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
Superieure
de Guerre.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-20 0:00 Ethics & Isaac Asimov G.M. Wallace
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-01-21 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-20 0:00 ` Carl Bauman
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