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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Movement of Bodies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those of you that have got through the rest, I am going to rapidly <br>Devote a little time to showing you, those that can master it, <br>A few ideas about tactics, which must not be confused<br>With what we call strategy. Tactics is merely<br>The mechanical movement of bodies, and that is what we mean by it. <br>Or perhaps I should say: by them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strategy, to be quite frank, you will have no hand in.<br>It is done by those up above, and it merely refers to,<br>The larger movements over which we have no control.<br>But tactics are also important, together or single.<br>You must never forget that, suddenly, in an engagement,<br>You may find yourself alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This brown clay model is a characteristic terrain<br>Of a simple and typical kind. Its general character<br>Should be taken in at a glance, and its general character<br>You can, see at a glance it is somewhat hilly by nature,<br>With a fair amount of typical vegetation<br>Disposed at certain parts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here at the top of the tray, which we might call the northwards,<br>Is a wooded headland, with a crown of bushy-topped trees on; <br>And proceeding downwards or south we take in at a glance<br>A variety of gorges and knolls and plateaus and basins and saddles, <br>Somewhat symmetrically put, for easy identification.<br>And here is our point of attack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But remember of course it will not be a tray you will fight on,<br>Nor always by daylight. After a hot day, think of the night <br>Cooling the desert down, and you still moving over it:<br>Past a ruined tank or a gun, perhaps, or a dead friend,<br>In the midst of war, at peace. It might quite well be that.<br>It isn't always a tray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even this tray is different to what I had thought.<br>These models are somehow never always the same: for a reason<br>I do not know how to explain quite. Just as I do not know<br>Why there is always someone at this particular lesson<br>Who always starts crying. Now will you kindly<br>Empty those blinking eyes?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank you. I have no wish to seem impatient.<br>I know it is all very hard, but you would not like,<br>To take a simple example, to take for example,<br>This place we have thought of here, you would not like<br>To find yourself face to face with it, and you not knowing <br>What there might be inside?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Very well then: suppose this is what you must capture.<br>It will not be easy, not being very exposed,<br>Secluded away like it is, and somewhat protected <br>By a typical formation of what appear to be bushes,<br>So that you cannot see, as to what is concealed inside,<br>As to whether it is friend or foe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, a strong feint will be necessary in this, connection.<br>It will not be a tray, remember. It may be a desert stretch <br>With nothing in sight, to speak of. I have no wish to be inconsiderate,<br>But I see there are two of you now, commencing to snivel.<br>I do not know where such emotional privates can come from.<br>Try to behave like men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank you. I was saying: a thoughtful deception<br>Is always somewhat essential in such a case. You can see<br>That if only the attacker can capture such an emplacement<br>The rest of the terrain is his: a key-position, and calling <br>For the most resourceful manoeuvres. But that is what tactics is.<br>Or I should say rather: are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us begin then and appreciate the situation.<br>I am thinking especially of the point we have been considering,<br>Though in a sense everything in the whole of the terrain,<br>Must be appreciated. I do not know what I have said<br>To upset so many of you. I know it is a difficult lesson.<br>Yesterday a man was sick,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I have never known as many as five in a single intake,<br>Unable to cope with this lesson. I think you had better<br>Fall out, all five, and sit at the back of the room,<br>Being careful not to talk. The rest will close up.<br>Perhaps it was me saying 'a dead friend', earlier on? <br>Well, some of us live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I never know why, whenever we get to tactics,<br>Men either laugh or cry, though neither is strictly called for.<br>But perhaps I have started too early with a difficult task?<br>We will start again, further north, with a simpler problem.<br>Are you ready? Is everyone paying attention?<br>Very well then. Here are two hills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Reed">Henry Reed</a><div class=q>
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