Military strategy is probably more careful than science in how many contingencies it expects, yet how few are truly accurate. Legitimately, science is more careful to actually try and do things it thinks has merit, while wars are fought off of conjecture and often just error. I think you can find a great number of amazing examples of both careful planning and completely spurious decision making, often on purpose to discredit another leader, within war. von Falkenhayn’s memoir of the Great War is a wonderful example.
He also brings up an absolutely excellent point, that is often under-considered.
It appears you only used soft line breaks for every paragraph, making your comment de-facto one big paragraph. That will make blockquotes a lot harder. As in most text-editors, you get paragraph breaks by pressing enter, and soft line-breaks by pressing shift-enter. Sadly, some places on the internet (like IM apps) have conditioned me to often use shift-enter in places where it doesn’t make sense, because enter also submits the message, so my guess is you were caught by those habits and were using shift-enter in the above?
Military strategy is probably more careful than science in how many contingencies it expects, yet how few are truly accurate. Legitimately, science is more careful to actually try and do things it thinks has merit, while wars are fought off of conjecture and often just error. I think you can find a great number of amazing examples of both careful planning and completely spurious decision making, often on purpose to discredit another leader, within war. von Falkenhayn’s memoir of the Great War is a wonderful example.
He also brings up an absolutely excellent point, that is often under-considered.
“Whether the solution proved itself in actual life depended, to be sure, as in all things in this imperfect world, primarily upon the men who had to put these principles in practice.”
offtopic: why is the editor so hard to use right now, I don’t remember quote blocks being this fiddly.
It appears you only used soft line breaks for every paragraph, making your comment de-facto one big paragraph. That will make blockquotes a lot harder. As in most text-editors, you get paragraph breaks by pressing enter, and soft line-breaks by pressing shift-enter. Sadly, some places on the internet (like IM apps) have conditioned me to often use shift-enter in places where it doesn’t make sense, because enter also submits the message, so my guess is you were caught by those habits and were using shift-enter in the above?
Yes.
thank you very much.