No Plan Survives First Contact With The Enemy

Anyone who complains there was 'no plan' is telling you to stop listening to them

“No plan of operations can be at all relied upon beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main force”, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder once wrote. Widely rephrased today as ‘No plan survives first contact with the enemy’, it is a pure truth of battle that has never failed even once, for ‘the enemy always gets a vote’.

For this reason alone, anyone who c…