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“Consider the vast influence of accident in war before you are engaged in it. It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster. — Thucydides, Athenian ambassador to Spartan Assembly, 432 BCE” — Graham Allison

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Consider the vast influence of accident in war before you are engaged in it. It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disaster. — Thucydides, Athenian ambassador to Spartan Assembly, 432 BCE
— Graham Allison