Dwight Eisenhower Never Fired a Shot in Combat and Won the Largest War in History. His Best Line Was About the Next One: “The Only Way to Win World War III Is to Prevent It”

Dwight Eisenhower Never Fired a Shot in Combat and Won the Largest War in History. His Best Line Was About the Next One: “The Only Way to Win World War III Is to Prevent It”

Dwight Eisenhower never fired a shot in combat, yet he won the largest war in history and then spent eight years as president making sure the next one never started. “The only way to win World War III is to prevent it,” he said in 1956. From the note taking sole blame if D-Day failed to ending Korea and his farewell warning about the military-industrial complex, that line explains him.