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For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience … indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
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Fighting Hazards Military
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon – and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
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Air Soldier War
If you wish for peace, understand war.
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Peace War Wish
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
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
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Dangerous Errors Tendencies
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
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
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 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
The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.
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Historian Mark Sake
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Bars Pursuit Satisfaction
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
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Causes Gains War
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
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
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Decay Military War
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

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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