‘Soldiering’s all very well.’ he [Burnes] told me, ‘but the men who make or break the army in a foreign country are we politicals. we meet the men who count, and get to know ‘em, and sniff the wind; we’re the eyes and ears – aye, and the tongues. without us the military are blind, deaf, and dumb.’Flashman, p.110, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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