Churchill also said: ‘No matter how good your plan is, at some point you need to stop and look at results.’
Gallipoli was a perfect example.
Unfortunately, government is totally immune to course corrections stemming from poor results.
Also...
“Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time” — Mike Tyson
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.” Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, 1871 (Prussian military strategist)
It was. That’s how he knew