The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
B. H. LIDDELL HARTWith growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force … The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
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If you want peace, understand war.
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The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
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The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
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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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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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A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.
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The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.
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The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
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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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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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