"Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did."
- Barbara Tuchman
"[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toe..."
"To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level tha..."
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."