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	*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''.		*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''.

	*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and ~~hie~~ have exactly the same aim in mind.''		*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.''

	*''To ensure against defeat, when out-numbered, out-weaponed and out-positioned: ~~Don~~'t have a battle.''		*''To ensure against defeat, when out-numbered, out-weaponed and out-positioned: don't have a battle.''

	*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.''		*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions, endeavour to be the man on the inside.''

	*''Power at a point!'' (echoes General Guderian's summation of the Blitzkrieg strategy: find the ''"schwerpunkt"'' of the enemy's line and hit him there with everything you have. Then just keep moving.)		*''Power at a point!'' (echoes General Guderian's summation of the Blitzkrieg strategy: find the ''"schwerpunkt"'' of the enemy's line and hit him there with everything you have. Then just keep moving.)

	*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ~~ornmental~~ masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum.		*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornamental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum.


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EinFritz: /* Nuggets of martial wisdom */ Don't have a battle

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Nuggets of martial wisdom: Don't have a battle

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	*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and hie have exactly the same aim in mind.''		*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and hie have exactly the same aim in mind.''

			*''To ensure against defeat, when out-numbered, out-weaponed and out-positioned: Don't have a battle.''

	*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.''		*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.''

EinFritz: /* Nuggets of martial wisdom */ Prepared to die

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Nuggets of martial wisdom: Prepared to die

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	*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''.		*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''.

			*''It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country. This means that both you and hie have exactly the same aim in mind.''

	*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.''		*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.''
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	*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornmental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum.		*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornmental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum.

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Soldierly advice about the art of warfare contained within a book by the great general [[Callus Tacticus]], whose very name has become synonymous across the Disc with the tactics employed by literate soldiery.

==Nuggets of martial wisdom ==

*''If you want your men to become farmers, issue them spades''.

*''When confronted with an impregnable fortress, well-garrisoned and well-stocked with provisions - endeavour to be the man on the inside.''

*''Power at a point!'' (echoes General Guderian's summation of the Blitzkrieg strategy: find the ''"schwerpunkt"'' of the enemy's line and hit him there with everything you have. Then just keep moving.)

*''Ab Hoc Possum Videre Domum Tuum'' (I Can See Your House From Up Here) - meant, in the opinion of [[71-hour Ahmed]], to be both a boast and a threat, but now just a line of ornmental masonry in what was Ankh-Morpork's Klatchian colony of Tacticum.

[[Category:Discworld publications]]
[[Category:Discworld culture]]
[[de:VENI VIDI VICI: Ein Soldatenleben]]