I’m reminded of Eisenhower’s quote “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” You can’t convince a million men to row across the channel by just saying “we’re going to kill Hitler.” You have to provide them with a string of proposals that are not likely to succeed by themselves, like jumping out of airplanes, sending thousands of bombers to Germany, splitting the atom in a bomb, in order for the mountainous proposition of invading Germany to end the war seem not just possible but probable.
I’m reminded of Eisenhower’s quote “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” You can’t convince a million men to row across the channel by just saying “we’re going to kill Hitler.” You have to provide them with a string of proposals that are not likely to succeed by themselves, like jumping out of airplanes, sending thousands of bombers to Germany, splitting the atom in a bomb, in order for the mountainous proposition of invading Germany to end the war seem not just possible but probable.