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

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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…
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While…
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to…
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in…
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming…
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to…
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces…
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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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As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding… — Larry Bird
Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do. — Scottie Pippen
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it. — Rodney Mullen
The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I… — Ariel Sharon
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure… — Ernest Thompson Seton
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself… — Frederick Douglass
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it. — Glenn Greenwald

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