Cabinets Quote by H. H. Asquith

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

— David Lloyd George

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

— Barbara Tuchman

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

— Anonymous

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

— Josephus Daniels

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the…

— Jemima Khan

The secret of war lies in the communications.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby,…

— Scott McClellan

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions,…

— Paul von Hindenburg

Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are…

— Noam Chomsky

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to…

— Robert Higgs

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

— Harry S. Truman