Embedded Quote by Dick Cheney

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a…

— Adam Gopnik

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to…

— Edmund Burke

Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt…

— Fred Reed

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

— Jay Samit

President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to…

— Ralph Nader

Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.

— Charlie Munger

It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my…

— David Ayer

The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts…

— Jessica Mathews

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

— Winston Churchill

We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer,…

— Herman Melville