Nick

“General staff officer candidates were chosen from the regular army's officer corps to take a rigorous examination. If they passed, they were then sent to the academy system for years of educational studies. If they passed that, they were then full general-staff officers and assigned and administered not by the regular army, but by the general staff itself.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

“Intelligence is not just information--it is information that has been acquired, processed, and analyzed based on its relevance for the commander, the staff, or the mission.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines

“Any nation must be concerned that its obligations do not outrun its capabilities. A middle power such as Canada must be particularly careful to ration its commitments.”
― Paul Hellyer

“Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.”
― Voltaire, Le Siecle De Louis XIV V2, Part 1 (1754)