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Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

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

    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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting … A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing. Download This Image

    It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting … A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. Download This Image

    The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

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

    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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

    The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

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

    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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
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    Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • 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.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. H. Liddell Hart Quote - The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. ‘The polish and pipeclay’ school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics. Download This Image

    The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. ‘The polish and pipeclay’ school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.

    B. H. LIDDELL HART