In the 1990s, the quest for swift war, replete with exit strategies and premature cease-fires, has led to less, not more, decisive war. The present struggle against terrorism may well prove an acid test for Edward Luttwaks point. Following the advice of the “cult of the quick” would have been a poor strategy during the Civil War. The benefit of speed was so ingrained into my Air Force training that I didn’t recognize I had been brainwashed by what Dr Thomas Hughes rightly identified as The Cult of the Quick.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2014/05/brainwashed-by-cult-of-quick.html