An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
War is like love; it always finds a way.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.