J. F. C. Fuller
J. F. C. Fuller
Major General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller, CB, CBE, DSOwas a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorizing principles of warfare. With 45 books and many articles,, he was a highly prolific author whose ideas reached army officers and the interested public. He explored the business of fighting, in terms of the relationship between warfare and social, political, and economic factors in the civilian sector. Fuller emphasized the...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth1 September 1878
Personally, the thrill I got out of making House of Bamboo was shooting in Japan, having a major studio budget and enough money and working counter to stereotypes. In terms of style, I wanted the wide screen and the color. I loathe this cliche vision of the underworld. Dark alleys and wet streets. I've done it. Everybody's done it. It becomes fake, and I don't like it.
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.