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The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.
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Cutting Lying Military
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
No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.
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Men Military Stupidity
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender’s hold by upsetting his balance.
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History Power 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 want peace, understand war.
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Peace Want War
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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Marine Corps Military War
The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.
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Expectation Indirect Line
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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Bars Pursuit Satisfaction
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively “personal,” arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.
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Ambition Thinking 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
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
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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Ideas Military Mind
To foster the people’s willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
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Important Military People
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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Past Soldier Spheres
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
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Mean Military War

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