David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America And The Korean War Quotes
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.
Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.