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Direct Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart
- Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that…
- The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in…
- This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that…
- Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
- Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main…
- The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion…
- In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance…
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