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  • B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. Download This Image
  • B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
  • B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
  • B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
  • B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
  • B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation. Download This Image

    The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - [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. Download This Image

    [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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy – in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict. Download This Image

    While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy – in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - To foster the people’s willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power. Download This Image

    To foster the people’s willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - This high proportion of history’s decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy. Download This Image

    This high proportion of history’s decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. Download This Image

    A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience … indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force … The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself. Download This Image

    The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force … The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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