"An army should always be so distributed that……" — 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 of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration."
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B. H. Liddell Hart
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