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Vernon Sturdee
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“The Japanese would act quickly, they would all be regulars, fully trained and equipped for the operations, and fanatics who like dying in battle, whilst our troops would consist mainly of civilians, hastily thrown together on mobilisation, with very little training, short of artillery and possibly of gun ammunition.”
Vernon Sturdee (1890–1966) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1933, to fellow senior officers. Reported in David Horner, Crisis of Command: Australian Generalship and the Japanese Threat (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1978), p. 16