Few screenwriters may have crafted as many universally quoted lines per movie as Mario Puzo. The Godfather movies elevated the stories of mobsters from the brutality of petty thugs to a Shakespearean epic about a king and his four sons. The timelessness is so well recognized that other screenwriters have referenced it in their own movies as “the sum of all wisdom.”

Mike Nelson is a retired Army Special Forces officer and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Counterterrorism Project. He is formerly of the Institute for the Study of War and the National Security Institute. You can find him on x.com at @mikenelson586.

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