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Benjamin H. Milligan
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By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
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published
2021
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4 editions
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“Forty-six pages long, each one vertically stamped Secret, the report’s language was diplomatic, almost sterile, but its contents were anything but, each enumerated bullet another carefully worded indictment of the Navy’s Vietnam planners, all guilty of the peacetime military’s most predictable blunder: They had brought the fleet they wanted to the battlefield instead of the fleet the battlefield needed.”
― By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
― By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
“Experienced enough to know that no choice was still a choice, he picked the least bad option and ordered his boats back”
― By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
― By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
“I might have more [faith] in the Navy than the Navy has in itself,” MacArthur concluded before delivering his next line directly to Sherman, but “the Navy has never let me down in the past, and it will not let me down this time.”
― By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
― By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
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