How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's… — David Gemmell
How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart. It comes down to men who are willing. The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.
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Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
“I understand why some men become soldiers: to protect the nation and all that. But a whole race of people living to be soldiers seems … unhealthy. Does that sound right?”“Indeed it sounds right. But the northern steppes make poor farmland. Mainly they breed goats and ponies. Any luxuries they desire, they must steal.”
[H]e who fears to lose will never win.
