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Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

B. H. Liddell Hart

To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.
B. H. LIDDELL HART

Military War
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon – and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
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Air Soldier War
It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.
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Long Military Promise
Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
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Fighting Hazards Military
Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
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Allies Enemy Military
Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.
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Next Should Steps Thinking
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
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Kind Support War
If you want peace, understand war.
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Peace Want War
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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Chance Guarantee Military
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
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Military Victory War
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off … since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.
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Belief Demand Military
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
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Mean Military War
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
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Dangerous Errors Tendencies
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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Fall Moving War
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
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Causes Gains War
While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system – upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.
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Country Military Numbers

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