Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 19 | 41 | Some claim, incidentally, that Commenius was himself once a mercenary. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 38 | It is not simply that the squares are more tactically flexible, being capable of functioning on broken terrain, and such, but also that they facilitate substitutions in the front lines, permitting the swift injection of fresh troops at crucial points. |
| 19 | 39 | The success of many generals, in my opinion, is largely a function of their intelligent use of reserves. |
| 19 | 40 | Dietrich of Tarnburg, for example, though one often thinks of him in terms of innovations such as the oblique advance and the use of siege equipment in the field, is also, in my opinion, based on my studies of his campaigns, for example, in the commentaries of Minicius and the "Diaries," which some ascribe to Carl Commenius, of Argentum, a military historian, a master of the use of reserves. |
| 19 | 41 | Some claim, incidentally, that Commenius was himself once a mercenary. |
| 19 | 42 | I do not know if this is true or not, but his diaries, if, indeed, they are his, suggest that he was not a stranger to the field. |
| 19 | 43 | I do not think it likely that all the incidents in them, in their detail, are merely based on the reports of others. |
| 19 | 44 | His accounts of Rovere and Kargash, for example, suggest to me the fidelity, the authenticity, of a perceptive eyewitness. |
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It is not simply that the squares are more tactically flexible, being capable of functioning on broken terrain, and such, but also that they facilitate substitutions in the front lines, permitting the swift injection of fresh troops at crucial points.
The success of many generals, in my opinion, is largely a function of their intelligent use of reserves.
Dietrich of Tarnburg, for example, though one often thinks of him in terms of innovations such as the oblique advance and the use of siege equipment in the field, is also, in my opinion, based on my studies of his campaigns, for example, in the commentaries of Minicius and the "Diaries," which some ascribe to Carl Commenius, of Argentum, a military historian, a master of the use of reserves.
Some claim, incidentally, that Commenius was himself once a mercenary.
I do not know if this is true or not, but his diaries, if, indeed, they are his, suggest that he was not a stranger to the field.
I do not think it likely that all the incidents in them, in their detail, are merely based on the reports of others.
His accounts of Rovere and Kargash, for example, suggest to me the fidelity, the authenticity, of a perceptive eyewitness.
- (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 19)