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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. - Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. – Barbara Tuchman

Other quotes by Barbara Tuchman

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman

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History
Author
Barbara Tuchman
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. – Barbara Tuchman

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Diplomacy
Author
Barbara Tuchman
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – Barbara Tuchman

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History
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Barbara Tuchman
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Other Quotes from
War
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I ended the war a horse ahead. – Nathan Bedford Forrest

Category:
War

I dont know why you use a fancy French word like detente when theres a good English phrase for it – cold war. – Golda Meir

Category:
War

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

Category:
War

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! – Daniel Boone

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War

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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of ones voice. – Ambrose Bierce

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