"NO plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces." – Helmut von Moltke the Elder
The idea behind the saying, now commonly shortened to "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and also attributed to other military minds like Dwight Eisenhower and Carl von Clausewitz, is not to encourage leaders to abandon planning. The point, rather, is to keep leaders aware that plans should not be set in stone.
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