"A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval."

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An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on; we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds; for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.

— George S. Patton