Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  • -- Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑·波拿巴

士兵通常赢得战斗;将军们因此而受到赞扬。

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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

正如第一次世界大战令人痛苦地表明的那样,当政治家和将军们带领国家进入战争时,他们几乎总是假定会迅速取得胜利,而且有一种非常持久的倾向,即不会预见到事后看来显而易见的问题。

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

每个士兵必须知道,在他投入战斗之前,他要打的小仗是如何融入全局的,他战斗的成功将如何影响整个战斗。

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

贪婪似乎已渗透到我们的各项重要原则之中,以致于与除和平与富裕之外的一切补救希望作斗争。