Strategic Error Quotes

Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

[Vietnam was] the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Iraq is the wrong war and the wrong time in the wrong place.

I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.

The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.

We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

I've already made my own mistakes in this game, even in the UFC. I'm just smart about how I make mistakes.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

, I'm going to reserve judgment on [Rex] Tillerson. But I'll ask him the same question I've asked the others: do you understand the historic lesson that the Iraq war was a failure, a strategic mistake, that's what Donald Trump says.

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

Whatever may be the reason, whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without fighting for it, orwhether it was that after all the preparations were not sufficiently complete--however, one thing is certain: he missed the bus.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.