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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and…
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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…
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to…
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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…
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Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in…
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A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming…
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to…
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The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…
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The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces…
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in…
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