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"“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Not when the enemy is me."

— Lois McMaster Bujold

January 1, 1970

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This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: ”No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.”

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This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: ”No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.”