Four-letter words

I want you to dictate to me a memorandum of a couple of pages. Four letter words and short sentences on the situation in Vietnam, the 'Vietnam Picture'.

- Lyndon Johnson, in Errol Morris' The Fog of War

Circular vocabulary

TO:  Gen. Abizaid
CC:  Gen. Myers
FROM:  Donald Rumsfeld [and initialled] 

Attached are the definitions of "guerilla warfare", "insurgency" and "unconventional warfare". They come from the Pentagon dictionary. 

Thanks.

[via Errol Morris, The Unknown Known]