War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Quote by Barbara W Tuchman

Topics: War Quotes

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

I really thought we'd win that

I really thought we'd win that

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at...

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words,...

Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words,...

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more...

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more...

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, `What the heck...

When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, `What the heck...

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would...

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would...

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down...

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down...

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...