Art of War

As a rule, in a military operation you need to change tactics a hundred times at every pace, proceeding when you see you can, falling back when you know there is an impasse. To talk about government orders for all this is like going to announce to your superiors that you want to put out a fire--by the time you get back with an order, there is nothing left but ashes.

I'm three chapters in now, so I thought I'd type up my favorite passage so far.