Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.
Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.