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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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