Reassuring withdrawals, Clausewitz writes in On War, are very rare. More often armies and nations fail to distinguish orderly disengagements from abject capitulations—or foresight from fear.
John Lewis Gaddis
Reassuring withdrawals, Clausewitz writes in On War, are very rare. More often armies and nations fail to distinguish orderly disengagements from abject capitulations—or foresight from fear.