Tuchman Humor

Their new Secretary for War was a barrister with a passion for German philosophy, Richard Haldane, who, when asked by the soldiers in Council what kind of army he had in mind, replied, “A Hegelian army.” “The conversation then fell off,” he recorded.

—Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August, (Random House), 55

I find this both familiar and really funny!

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