US Army

"We think perhaps we may have gotten inside of the enemy’s decision-making cycle and arrived with a tempo that put us in place before they could respond to the impending threat that now is a matter of history. US Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, Doha, Qatar, April 4, 200339"

"Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach47 by retired US Army Colonel Mike Malone because of the practical advice this decorated combat infantry leader gives young officers and NCOs. You cannot, he admonishes, give in to the urge to check and control everybody. In the heat of battle, there isn’t time. You have to trust your soldiers and subordinate leaders to do the right thing under the stress of combat. But, and this is the key point, this trust cannot be wished for or assumed. It must be earned through training and working together, as the German Army did between the two world wars when it was reduced to a small core of career professionals (an “unintended consequence” of the surrender terms imposed by the Allies at Versailles.)"

"From war: The art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation or alliance to secure policy objectives by the application of threat of military force. US Army Field Manual 100-5, Operations, 1986."