It is no easy matter in a global war to have the right materials in the right places at the right times in the right quantities. U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946)
War has changed little in principle from the beginning of recorded history. The mechanized warfare of today is only an evolution of the time when men fought with clubs and stones, and its machines are as nothing without the men who invent them, man them and give them life. Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record (1952)
I'd say they started something at Pearl Harbor that they are not going to finish. We are going to win this war.