Different views Quote by Thomas E Ricks

“Sometimes, the best advisor is one that serves as a sounding board for his commander’s thoughts.”

— B.V. Larson

“Dissent is most controversial during wartime because it is cast as unpatriotic and dangerous to the national cause. But that is precisely the time…

— Dan Rather

“His advisers didn’t know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two.”

— Michael Wolff

“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Plans succeed through good counsel; don’t go to war without the advice of others.”

— Al Fike

“a more thorough recognition and appreciation of the several patterns of thoughts that make up our military minds would probably produce better strategies. It”

— J.C. Wylie

“[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

“nothing is more difficult in war than to adhere to a single strategic plan” and to resist the “constant temptation to desert the chosen…

— Rick Atkinson

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

“Yet... if we persuade intelligent youth to hold aloof from the Army in peace, we ought not to complain if we are not properly…

— Lord Moran

“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and…

— John Knowles

“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought…

— Hermann Hesse