a human strategy, aphorism 399

399

A strategy without adequate resources has little chance for victory, but that says little of the strategy itself.  Many who have failed have had their plans buried with them, only to have the lesser plan of a lesser architect adopted — and all because fate was a poor instructor, because of the human tendency to magnify recent points of victory or failure such that they dwarf the greatness ... the eventual victory of a superior plan, however weak its resources at the moment.






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