Military Error Quotes

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

There isn’t going to be any learning curve for nuclear weapons. An administration makes one mistake and the result can destroy entire nations.

The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

We make mistakes in every war and serious mistakes were made here.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.