"We trained hard. But it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up in teams, we would be re-organised.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by re-organising - and a wonderful method it can be for creating an illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation"
Extract from the writings of the Roman, Petronius Arbitor, Governor of Bithynia, who committed suicide in AD65, having fallen foul of Tigellinus, favourite of Nero.
