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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.

B. H. Liddell Hart's Popular Quotes

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

- 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 take…

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The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

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

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

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[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 cont…

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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 stri…

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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 dr…

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

- B. H. Liddell Hart