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Strategy Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart
- 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…
- The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
- 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…
- To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against…
- The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
- The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of…
- The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential…
- In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has…
- [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce…
- For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may…
- 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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