"Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win."
— War

January 1, 1970

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George S. Patton, in stanza 1 of "Absolute War" a poem composed by Patton in July 1944, during Operation Cobra as quoted in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson p. 492.