American people Quote by Colin Powell
“Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.”
![“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger generation to whom this experience meant just nothing, used to lecture us for our softness. Of course they could produce no argument that we were capable of…” quote by George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/878/george-orwell-57_good-thing_the-young-officers-who-had-come-back-fro_1222290.jpg)
![“The glamorous side is all they want to hear, the real part of war isn’t believed or [is] listened to with a bored feeling, such as: the constant waiting, baking in the sun all day the flies all day & the mosquitoes all night, the hr. on & hr. off all night, the rain & shivering all night, the…” quote by Dan Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa8/dan-levin-107374_art-of-war_the-glamorous-side-is-all-they-want-to-h_1690097.jpg)
