A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

--General George Patton

Oh East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, nor Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

--Rudyard Kipling ‘The Ballad of East and West’ (1865--1936)

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

--Groucho Marx

We have met the enemy, and they are us.

--Walt Kelly, Pogo. 1971