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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.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
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Devil Self Society
For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience … indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
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May Military Training
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Bars Pursuit Satisfaction
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.
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Military Produce
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
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Military Strong War
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed – if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
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Enemy Military Purpose
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
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
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.
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Level Military War
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
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 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
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
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
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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Chance Guarantee Military
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
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Military Opponents Resistance

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