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I have always been in the psychology of
the fighting man, I am here best able
to measure the height of your attainment.
Your conclusion (at least if it is not yours
exclusively, the British Army has hitherto
showed no sign of having made it theirs)
that the 'advance must be by way of
stages ..... capture ..... & then an
artillery concentration against the next position
followed by a second .... the use of fresh
troops for every stage of the advance -'
is, of course, exact, and I hope some
of those who direct our destinies will not
be above taking it to heart, The Germans
certainly have arrived at that conclusion, as
their methodical (& I think admirable in
many ways) campaign against Verdun shows.