Not exactly inspirational maybe, but for anyone who has ever endured the frustration of existing within a military command it will ring painfully true:
"We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."
Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
As true today in Afghanistan as it was then.