To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.