“Ike was interested in how Zhukov smashed through German minefields with so little loss of armor. It wasn't complicated, Zhukov replied. He sent the infantry through first. 'The losses we get from personal mines we consider only equal to those we would have gotten from machine guns and artillery if the Germans had chosen to defend that particular area with strong bodies of troops instead of with mine fields.' ...'Keep Nixon and Dulles around for marching through minefields' became one of Eisenhower's operating principles.”
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