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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.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you wish for peace, understand war.
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Peace War Wish
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
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
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender’s hold by upsetting his balance.
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History Power War
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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Marine Corps Military War
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
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Dangerous Errors Tendencies
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
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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Chance Guarantee Military
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
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
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
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
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Issues Loss War
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
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Causes Gains 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
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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Issues Military War

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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