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War Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart
- Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
- The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their…
- In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
- As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
- If you want peace, understand war.
- 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.
- While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of…
- The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of…
- The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion…
- War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.
- 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…
- Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
- 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…
- Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
- Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
- Guerrillas war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many
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