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No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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
While hitting one must guard … In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.
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Military Order Taken
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
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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Marine Corps Military War
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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Lying Men Reality
If you wish for peace, understand war.
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Peace War Wish
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
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
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
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 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 unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
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Chance Guarantee Military
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
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
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
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Devil Self Society

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