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B. H. Liddell Hart

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
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
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
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
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
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Devil Self Society
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
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Military Opponents Resistance
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
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Battle Decision Military
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
The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.
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Historian Mark Sake
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
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
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 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
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 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
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
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Evil Military War

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