• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    An old NCO once told me that “the first casualty of war is the plan.” I don’t know where he got that from, but I’ve always liked that quote.

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      18 days ago

      The great philosopher Mike Tyson famously said “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face”

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      18 days ago

      Iirc it was some German general around the first world war.

      Edit: it is probably based on von Moltke the elder a prussian field marshal

      „Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.“