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Winston Churchill: “The only thing certain in war is that it is full of disappointments and also full of mistakes.”

On the recordApril 16, 2012
The only thing certain in war is that it is full of disappointments and also full of mistakes.
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Winston Churchill

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Portman quotes Churchill on the inevitability of mistakes in war.

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