The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.