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From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Ethics & Isaac Asimov
Date: 1999/01/20
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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.

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    "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."

        --  Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
Superieure
            de Guerre.