Military Mistake Quotes

Iraq is the wrong war and the wrong time in the wrong place.

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

I would not use American ground forces in Syria. I think that would be a very serious mistake. I don't think American troops should be holding territory, which is what they would have to do as an occupying force. I don't think that is a smart strategy.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.