War Plans Quotes:

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, War, 4th Of July, Management Motivation, Inspirational Softball

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night...

- Sun Tzu

topic: Art, War, Dark, War Plans

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Military, Causes Of War, World War 2

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

- Abu Abbas

topic: War, Land, Goal, War Plans

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

- Robert McNamara

topic: Peace, War, Kind, War Plans

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Stupid, War, Republican, War Plans, Implications

Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.

- Uri Avnery

source: "War Now!" by Uri Avnery, September 9, 2002.

topic: War, Islamic, Israel, Iranian, Kurds

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: War, Believe, Levels, War Plans, Destructiveness

Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

- Carl Sagan

topic: South Asia, Burn Out, War Plans, War Zones, Endangerment

[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.

- John Leo

topic: War, Fighting, Japan, War Plans, Low Level