Charlton Ogburn - We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

- Charlton Ogburn

source: "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.