If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share 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… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share 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… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
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