"[T]he cavalry will never be scrapped to make room for the tanks; in the course of time cavalry may be reduced as the supply of horses in this country diminishes. This greatly depends on the life of fox-hunting, for which the class of horse required in the cavalry is used."
— Cavalry

January 1, 1970

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Neil Haig, "Substance or Shadow", Journal of the Royal United Service Institution (March 1921), p. 119; quoted by Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 386, in connection with the ideas of Liddell Hart on the development of armoured warfare after the First World War. Neil Haig's more famous brother likewise dismissed motorised weapons as mere "accessories to the man and horse".