Battle of Dagorlad

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Originally Posted by Rumil

Who was it said that amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics?

General Omar Bradley said that, and it was still being taught at the US Infantry Officers' Basic Course when I attended back in 1992.

I've also heard a version which goes "Amateurs talk tactics, dilettantes talk strategy, and professionals talk logistics."

On that same subject, Hans Guderian also said, "Logistics is the ball and chain of armoured warfare." and Stalin was to have said, "Quantity has a quality all of its own."

Two others, more applicable to Sauron than the Alliance:

-"Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm." (Barbara Tuchman)

-"A single death is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic." (Stalin)