B. H. Liddell Hart

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

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

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

Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements,…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

[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

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less,…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

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

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

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

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and…

— B. H. Liddell Hart