One of many is: you cannot win a war in Afghanistan. This is from Kipling’s poem The Young British Soldier, published in 1890.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
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