No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force. (Helmuth von Moltke *26.10.1800 Prussian military commander)
We have so little that we have learnt to turn shit into gold - but we are now even running out of shit anonymous Bundeswehr General
"And you can keep your shit, Herr General!" Sounds a bit like MacArthur at that outback train station. "It is my mission, AS I UNDERSTAND IT to return to Australia." (Not verbatim.)
"Whatever else they may say of me as a soldier, at least nobody can say that I failed to display a proper appreciation of the virtues of alcohol" Winston Spencer Churchill, farewell to the 6th Battalion Royal Scottish Fusiliers 1916
Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance. - Bossuet Quote heading Chapter One of The Foundations of the Science of War J F C Fuller
Will today's orthodoxy be tomorrow's tragic mistake? ... For instance, on August 21, 1914, the world might have reasoned that "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong," but by nightfall of August 22 the world knew that Fifty Million Frenchmen Had Been Wrong. CAPTAIN C. T. LANHAM, US Infantry, Field Artillery Journal Nov-Dec 1935
" That sort of thing might alright for the French, but thankfully we're British " - Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, First Viscount of Alamein
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Roy Batty, "Blade Runner"
