Betrayal Quote by William Shakespeare

“War will find us whether we are ready or not.”

— Winston Churchill

“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.”

— J.C. Wylie

“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to…

— Thucydides

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is…

— H. R. McMaster

“What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;-it…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“many wars have been meticulously planned long in advance and are executed exactly according to the plan.”

— Robin de Ruiter

“When your thinkings are ahead of your enemies; you will have 95% of probabilities to win the war against them, so the more ahead…

— Pedro Acevedo

“There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact.”

— B.F. Skinner

“If we have made appropriate preparations, taking into account all possible misfortunes, so that we shall not be lost immediately if they occur, we…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations”

— Charles C. Mann

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

— Anonymous