"Military strategy is, almost by definition, deceptive. It can be compared with very few human activities. Certainly there are other kinds of strategists--heads of state and diplomats, corporate leaders and investment bankers, all manner of institutional planners--but ultimately, win or lose, very few (if any) go to the hospital or the morgue. War is about killing and dying; this changes the psychological dimension entirely and also the basis for comparison. In drawing any kind of plausible analogy, the possibility of dying must be a factor" (Robert L. O'Connell, Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman, 15).
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