Sheridan
“Sheridan once explained the reason of General Grant’s victories by saying that ‘while his opponents were kept fully employed wondering what he was going to do, HE was thinking most of what he was going to do himself.’”... Read More »
Sun Tzu
“As Tu Mu says, ‘to plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy’s intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.’” -Sun Tzu, The Art... Read More »
Tolstoy
‘As Sterne says, “We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.”‘ -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace Read More »
MacKay
“No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action; and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect... Read More »
MacKay
“Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.”-Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds Read More »
Kilcullen
“Killing or capturing terrorists is a strictly secondary activity, because it is ultimately defensive (keeping today’s terrorists at bay) rather than decisive (preventing future terrorism). Conversely, programs that address the underlying conditions that terrorists exploit (thus preventing another crop... Read More »
Lewis
“I had one quality possessed by neither of my teachers: a detachment from the business and the firm…It is extremely useful in a young career because it leaves you fearless. I had the same advantage of recklessness as a... Read More »
Quincy Adams
“America…goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy…She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in... Read More »