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"It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy, so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil."
[Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz]

Recipe for cheating

Lack of communication
Need for attention
Need not being met
Sense of abandonment or neglect
Stress

Deep Thought

"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn in this life that we tend to meet any situation by reorganizing. And a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."

[Frequently attributed to

Petronius Arbiter circa 60 A.D.]

(Probably of much more recent origin.)

Deep Thought

"The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis."

[Attributed to Admiral Karl Doenitz,

of the German Kriegsmarine]

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"We are outnumbered; there is only one thing to do. We must attack!"

[Admiral Andrew Cunningham]

(Before attacking the Italian fleet

at Taranto, November 1940)

Deep Thought

"What, Sir? You would make a ship sail against the wind and tides by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

(On hearing Robert Fulton's

plans to build a steamboat.)

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"This ship is built to fight. You had better know how."

[Admiral Arleigh Burke]

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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."

[Captain John Paul Jones]

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"It's extremely difficult to second guess the American Navy, because the Americans rarely read their doctrine, and don’t feel compelled to follow it when they do."

[Attributed to Admiral of the

Soviet Fleet, Sergei Gorshkov]

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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."

[Sun Tzu]

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Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
-Winston Churchill

Deep Thought

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

[Samuel Johnson]

Deep Thoughts

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"For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command."

Admiral Arleigh Burke, CNO, 1 August 1961, Change of command address at Annapolis, MD
[Arleigh Burke, Speeches, Box 1, Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center]