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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.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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Marine Corps Military War
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
While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system – upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.
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Country Military Numbers
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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Military Victory 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
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
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
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move – so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.
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Effort Military Moving
An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
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Aids Army Military
If you want peace, understand war.
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Peace Want War
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
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Devil Self Society
In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter’s defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.
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Army Military Stronger
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
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Power Truth 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
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
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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Chance Guarantee Military

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