Tagged as: fog of war

Well, of course it is, David Rowe, but thank you for pointing it out, since we don’t seem to remember, or perhaps care. The idea that “Truth is the first casualty in war” is such a common observation that it makes a fascinating entry for the Quote Investigator, but, appropriately, is a casualty of its […]

Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread markedly. According to Wikipedia (or whoever they copped it from): The first known use of the exact phrase in text dates to 1896 in a book titled The Fog of War by Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale, where […]