Arrangements should be made to leave a large number of static anti-aircraft guns which are not needed in their positions for care and maintenance. I do not like breaking up batteries planted with so much care. The personnel can be removed and a few caretakers kept. Otherwise I am sure we shall find that in a few months we have simply stripped the western and northern parts of the country of every form of defence, and should the situation change we should have to begin almost from the very beginning. It is the personnel that we want.
2. I must take exception to the expression “low-grade infantry brigades”. This should never be used again. If it is necessary to differentiate between them in any way by name they could be called “Reserve brigades”.
Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy