Affair Quote by Allan Massie

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

War is a catalouge of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act.…

— Sun Tzu

“His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as…

— Aubrey Menen

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

— Eugene McCarthy

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of…

— Stephen Fry

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war,…

— Bashar al-Assad

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an…

— Simone Weil

The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic - Iraq was…

— Tomas Young

“Over the past five decades, civilian officials have favored the use of military force over the opposition of their military counterparts. In doing so,…

— Melvin A. Goodman

War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

— Thomas Jefferson