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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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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Air Blow Target
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 search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.
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Historian Mark Sake
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 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
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.
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Military War
If you want peace, understand war.
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Peace Want War
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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Film Materials Past
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
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Bars Pursuit Satisfaction
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
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Military Opponents Resistance
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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Chance Guarantee Military
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
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
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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Growing Military Offensive
The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.
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Expectation Indirect Line

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