We Face A Hostile Ideology Global In

Memory Should Be The Starting Point Of The Present.

We Do Not Keep Security Establishments Merely To Defend Property Or Territory Or Rights Abroad Or At Sea. We Keep The Security Forces To Defend A Way Of Life.

Every Battle Is Going To Surprise You. No Plan Ever Survives Contact With The Enemy.

I Feel Impelled To Speak Today In A Language That In A Sense Is New-one Which I, Who Have Spent So Much Of My Life In The Military Profession, Would Have Preferred Never To Use. That New Language Is The Language Of Atomic Warfare.

Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Essential.