The art of war

[expat]

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.
General de Gaulle to John F Kennedy, on Vietnam, 1961.

Ah, mon Général, si tu vivais aujourd'hui....

[sasguru]

What do you expect from a president who has probably never read a work of history in his life?

Those who don't look at history are condemned to repeat it.

[SallyAnne]

Isn't quagmire a character in family guy?

[Spacecadet]

Isn't quagmire a character in family guy?

yes

[Ardesco]

this seems even more random and pointless than most threads on CUK.....

[Churchill]

Sun Tzu was at Sandhurst, I was his Commanding Officer.

Threaded.

[AtW]

Sun Tzu was at Sandhurst, I was his Commanding Officer.

Threaded.

Good one!

[Churchill]

Good one!

One does try.