Garrison

…But the garrison had shown, with unusual clarity, and against an unusually formidable enemy, just how far those methods could carry a force that had no business succeeding by conventional measures, and that demonstration was not lost on the people whose profession is the study of such things.…

…In the years that followed the war, the techniques the garrison had developed found their way into the serious study of warfare, examined and dissected in the military academies and officer training establishments of the major powers, from the institutions of one Allied capital to another.…

…The broadcast had been an exercise in trying to lower the garrison's opinion of itself, and it ran headlong into the awkward reality that these men's opinion of themselves was both unshakable and entirely indifferent to the views of a sneering voice on the radio.…