• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    14 小时前

    An old NCO once told me that “the first casualty of war is the plan.” I don’t know where he got that from, but I’ve always liked that quote.

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      11 小时前

      It was Eisenhower maybe that said “plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.”

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        10 小时前

        Yup, if you don’t get down to plan E, you’re not running a war, you’re executing a genocide.

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      11 小时前

      Iirc it was some German general around the first world war.

      Edit: it is probably based on von Moltke the elder a prussian field marshal

      „Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.“

    • zerosignal@lemmy.worldOP
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      The great philosopher Mike Tyson famously said “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face”