Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  • -- Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑·波拿巴

士兵通常赢得战斗;将军们因此而受到赞扬。

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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

正如第一次世界大战令人痛苦地表明的那样,当政治家和将军们带领国家进入战争时,他们几乎总是假定会迅速取得胜利,而且有一种非常持久的倾向,即不会预见到事后看来显而易见的问题。

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

处于顶峰的东西必然会衰落。举手的必被打败。能利用敌人的疑虑在战斗中获胜的人是不可战胜的。

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

作为战争的政治已经让位于作为奇观的政治。

I made all my generals out of mud.

我用泥巴造出了我所有的将军。