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Bernard Brodie on Memorial Day

d. 1978

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Soldiers usually are close students of tactics, but rarely are they students of strategy and practically never of war.

In wars throughout history, events have generally proved the pre-hostilities calculations of both sides, victor as well as loser, to have been seriously wrong.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard Brodie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.