J. F. C. Fuller
MajorGeneral John Frederick Charles Boney Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO was a 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 potential of new weapons, especially tanks and aircraft, to stun a surprised enemy psychologically.
Fuller was born in 1878 at Chichester in West Sussex. After moving to Lausanne with his parents as a boy, he returned to England at the age ofwithout them three years later, at the somewhat advanced age of 14, he began attending Malvern College and, later trained for an army career at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1897 to 1898. His nickname of Boney, which he was to retain, is said to have come either from an admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, or from an imperious manner combined with military brilliance which resembled Napoleons.
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