Manuel

“... the Mossad. Its full name is Ha Mossad, le Modiyn ye le Talkidim Mayuhadim [the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations]. Our motto is: 'By way of deception, thou shalt do war...”
― Victor Ostrovsky, By Way of Deception: The Making of a Mossad Officer

“Moment by moment the event is imperceptibly shaping itself, and at every moment of this continuous, uninterrupted shaping of events the commander in chief is in the midst of a most complex play of intrigues, worries, contingencies, authorities, projects, counsels, threats, and deceptions and is continually obliged to reply to innumerable questions addressed to him, which constantly conflict with one another.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“No olvides que la realidad es cambiante, no olvides que lo
nuevo puede surgir y, de todos modos, va a surgir.”
― Edgar Morin, Introduction à la pensée complexe

“An army gains a victory, and at once the rights of the conquering nation have increased to the detriment of the defeated. An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace