Category: Quotes of the Week

Never fly the “A” model of anything.

—Edward Thompson

First of all, sorry for the week-long hiatus. I think I just needed to step away for a bit, but I’m back and I’ll try to not do that again in such an unannounced manner. I really did sit down almost every night planning to post but best intentions, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, back to blogging.

It takes close coordination with the Army to obtain maximum misuse of air power.

—Gen. Carl A. Spaatz

Three-quarters of a soldier’s life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

—Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

I am tempted to declare that whatever doctrine the Armed Forces are working on, they have got it wrong. I am also tempted to declare that it does not matter that they have got it wrong. What does matter is their capacity to get it right quickly, when the moment arrives.

—Sir Michael Howard

War, like most things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverence, by time, and by practice.

—Alexander Hamilton

The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, “Frightfully sorry, old chap.”

—William Golding

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

—Heinrich Heine

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one way: to be the conqueror.

—Andre Malraux