Quotes

1. No nation need expect to be great, unless it makes study of its principal honour and occupation. 2. There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire, it is to develop a more violent, lethal fire oneself. 3. A superiority of fire, and hiterfore a superiority in directing and delivering fire and in making use of fire, willbecome the main factors upon which the efficiency of a force will depend. 4. If theres a way to do it better- find it.

YOU CANT FIGHT THE CORPS DEEP BATTLE SUCCESSFULLY WITHOUT MASSING DEEP ASSETS. EMPLOYING SINGLE SYSTEM JUST ISNT AS EFFECTIVE. LT GEN JERRY R RUTHERFORD TODAYS BATTLE FD IS A TRULY JOINT WITH THE SYNCHRONISED APPLICATION OF ALL COMB ASSETS. IT EXTENDS IN THREE DIMENSIONS WITH AIR AND GRND FORCES - FIRES AND MANEUVER INTERMINGLED IN TIME AND SPACE. MAJ GEN FRED F MARTY WE NOW POSSESS THE ABILITY TO SEE, HIT AND KILL ON THE BATTLE FDS TO DEPTHS AND PRECISION NEVER BEFORE IMAGINED. CENTRALISED COORD OF FIRES IS KEY, BUT CENTRALISED CONT ISNT NECESSARY. THE DIVISIONS MOST IMP COMB MULTIPLIER IS ITS ENHANCED ABILITY TO GAIN, PROCESS AND DISTRIBUTE INFO. AS A CORPS CDR, IF I FIGHT THE DEEP FIGHT SUCCESSFULLY, ILL WIN THE CLOSE FIGHT. BY GOING DEEP, I CAN SEPARATE THE ENS ECHS, INFLUENCE WHERE AND WHEN THE CLOSE BATTLE WILL TAKE PLACE AND WHAT FORCE HELL BRING TO THAT BATTLE - SHAPE IT FOR THE DIVS THE COMBINED EFFECTS OF JOINT FIRE SUPPORT ASSEST AT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS COMPRESS OPERATIONS AT THE TACTICAL, OPERATIONAL AND STRATEGIC LEVELS INTO ONE SYNCHRONOUS JOINT BATTLE. AN AFAS-C EIGHT GUN BTY COULD NEED APPROXIMATELY 300 TONS OF AMN PER DAY - A TRUE LOGISTICAL CHALLANGE THE INDL 21ST CENTURY CANNON WILL APPCH THE LETHALITY OF THAT FOUND IN AN ENTIRE BTY OF 1980S GUNS 1. Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. - Nehru 2. When hunting a hare , take the weapons used in hunting a tiger. - Marathi Proverb 3. The real power is not in the weapons themselves, but in the man who wields those weapons. - Tagore 4. Almighty God, grant me this boon, Never should I hesitate from a right action Never should I fear the enemy, when I confront him in the battlefield for a just cause... And when the end comes,I should fallin the battlefield fighting - Guru Gobind Singh

5. Superiority of armament may increase the chances of success in war. It does not itself gain battles, but it is a great elementofsuccess. - Jomini. 6. A thunderbolt is a thunderbolt, evenin the hands of God. -Tagore 7. Forevery four camels one elephant, for every two elephants one chariot, for every chariot two big guns. - Indian Maxim 8. The destruction of enemies by arrows and other weapons of great force and dispatched by spells, and by enchanted missiles, is recorded as the best fighting of all. - Rig Veda O Prithvi! There are clouds in heaven and lightning streaks through them. - Rig Veda 10. When Agni burns, the pure smoke whirls away in the sky. 9. Agni establish everyone, his eyes see all that there is to see. Defeat our enemies where power knows no bounds. - Sama Veda 11. O Warriors! Attack the enemies and be victorious, May your arms be strong. Your arrows be steeped in wisdom. They will pierce your foes and kill them all. May the enemy soldiers provide food for the vultures. Indra and Agni will aid us in battle. - Sama Veda 12. Dispersing from us let the shafts fly, those that are hurled and that are to be hurled.Ye divine arrows of men pierce my enemies. -Atharva Veda 13. By the bow the contest may we win, By the bow dread battles may we win, By the bow doth work displeasure to the foe, By the bow let us win in all quarters - Taittiriya Samhita 14. Transfix the fiends with darts that burnmost fiercely, Forthgo in rapidflight thewhirlingweapons followthem closely, glowing in thy fury Spread with thy tongue the winged flames, O Agni around thee. - Rig Veda 15. Tonguesof fire and tufts of smoke, Left in the wakeofa conquering army. - Atharva Veda Unfettered, cast thy firebrands all

16. Riseup O Agni, spread thee out before us Burn down our foes, those who have sharpened arrows - Rig Veda 17. The first blow is as much as two - Ranjit Singh 18. A bow long bent waxeth weak. - Hindi Proverb 19. Wheninsulted, men who lack cannon Proverb never answer back -Malayan

20. Courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior. - Lal Bahadur Shastri 21. A steam roller pursues its leisurely course oblivious of what it crushes and grinds beneath it. - Tagore 22. Artillery is useful to an army when the soldiers are animated by the same valour as that of the Romans, but without that it is perfectly inefficient, especially against courageous troops. 23. Then let us bring our light artillery, Minions,falc'nets, and sakers, to the trench, Filling the ditches with the walls' wide breach. And enter in to seize upon the gold. - Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great,Part2,III. 24. The cannons have their bowles full of wrath, And ready mounted are they to spit forth Their iron indignation. - William Shakespeare, King John, II,i. 25. Artillerie, th' infernall instrument, New-brought from hell, to scourge mortalitie. With hideous roaring and astonishment. - Samuel Daniel. The Civil Wars between the two Houses of York and Lancaster, VI (1595). 26. "Ultima ratio regum." - The final argument of kings. Motto inscribed on French cannon by order of King Louis XIV, c.1660. 27. We are the boys That fear no noise.

Where the thundering cannons roar. - Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773).

28. Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed, to battle driven, And louder than the bolts of Heaven, Far flash'd the red artillery. - Thomas Campbell, Hohenlinden', Poems (1803) 29. It is with artillery that war is made. - Napoleon I, after the Battle of Lobau, 1809. 30. My God| I can scarcely credit their taking the fearful responsibility of sending us into the field practically unarmed with artillery. Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, letter to Pandeli Ralli during the Boer War, an outrage it is 1900. 31. I have seen war, and faced modern artillery and I know what against simple men. - T.M. Kettle, The Ways of War (1915). 32. Six evil-looking mouths would spit and crack in deafening unceasing clamour, and the shells pour over their bigger sisters like flocks of birds in whirring flight. - Frankling Lushington, The Gambardier (1930). 33. It is great value to an army, whether in defence or offence, to have at its disposal a mass of heavy batteries. - Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (1948). 34. The remarkable thing about modern shelling is not how many it kills, but how few. Fred Majdalany, The Monastery (1950). 35. Cannons are the keys to Empires Akbar 36. You can't describe the moral lift when in the fight your spirit weary Hears above the hostile fire. your own artillery. - From the poem Vasily Terkin by Aleksander Tvardovskiy

37. The presence of nuc wpns and nuc capability has therefore to be met with nuc capability whether overt or covert. - Dr Savita Datt 38. The launching of Agni gives us the confidence that we are capable of designing any kind of msl. We are now self - sufficient both in design and in msl technology. It is a technological str. Str respects str, weaklings are not honoured. So we should be strong. - AvilPakur J Abdul Kalam