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While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

B. H. Liddell Hart's Popular Quotes

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

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

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

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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.

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