“The only thing new in the world
is the history you don’t know.”
-Harry S Truman
George Santayana, who, in his Reason in Common Sense, The Life of Reason, Vol.1, wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Georges Clemenceau War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson, p. 228; this has also become commonly paraphrased as: War is too important to be left to the generals.
George Clemenceau theory is borne out when military leaders become incharge of conducting wars. An example of such a military leader is US Admiral Mullen, a classic example of cutting off your nose to spite your face: He said, “ Pakistan
