“Generals are always prepared to fight the last war. ”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 46
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