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The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.
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Historian Mark Sake
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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Marine Corps Military War
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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Lying Men Reality
For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.
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Endurance Ideas Self
While hitting one must guard … In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.
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Military Order Taken
To foster the people’s willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
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Important Military People
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
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Military Opponents Resistance
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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Ideas Military Mind
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
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Evil Military War
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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Past Soldier Spheres
This high proportion of history’s decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
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Direct Approach Hopeful Military
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
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Devil Self Society
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy’s economic and moral centres without having first to achieve ‘the destruction of the enemy’s main forces on the battlefield’. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means – hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.
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Air Mean Military
An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
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Aids Army Military
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent’s mind and dispositions – such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.
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Gauges Military Mind
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples’ dream of full and final insurance of their security … While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
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Dream Hydrogen Bomb Military

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