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Power Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart
- The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased…
- Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
- It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in…
- With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
- To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
- In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which…
- 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…
- 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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