Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.