This society was later discontinued, but the name and plan survived.

Somebody once said that few plans survive contact with the enemy.

And no plan ever survives an encounter with reality, he said.

It is said around the Pentagon that no military plan survives contact with the enemy.

"The best plans never survive the first engagement with the enemy."

He says Clarke told him last month that this plan would survive the consultation.

Too bad it's really true that no plan survives contact with the enemy!

There is a saying at the Pentagon that no plan survives contact with the enemy.

"No plan survives contact with the enemy" or the disaster as the case may be.

He said he was not sure the plan would survive court challenges.