In war everything is uncertain, and calculations have to be made with variable quantities …. all military action is intertwined with psychological forces and effects.
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.
Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.
