B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes - Page 3

• 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 its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

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  Determinación, Militar, Guerra

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• 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 another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

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  Military, War, Should Have

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• Esta elevada proporción de campañas decisivas de la historia, cuya importancia se ve reforzada por la rareza comparativa del enfoque directo, refuerza la conclusión de que el indirecto es, con mucho, la forma de estrategia más esperanzadora y económica.

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  Military, Hopeful, Direct Approach

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• [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 the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

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  Military, Decision, Battle

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• While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

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  Military, Taken, Order

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2013). “Foch - The Man Of Orleans”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

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• 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 operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

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  Country, Military, Soldier

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• As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

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  Military, War, Victory

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• El impulso de liberarse de la tensión mediante la acción es una causa precipitante de la guerra.

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  War, Gains, Causes

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• El principio del servicio obligatorio, encarnado en el sistema de reclutamiento, ha sido el medio por el cual los dictadores modernos y las bandas militares han encadenado a sus pueblos después de un golpe de Estado, y los han atado a sus propios propósitos agresivos. En vista del gran servicio que el servicio militar obligatorio ha prestado a la tiranía y a la guerra, es fundamentalmente miope que cualquier pueblo amante de la libertad y deseoso de paz lo mantenga como una salvaguardia imaginaria, no sea que se convierta en víctima del monstruo que ha ayudado a preservar.

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  Militar, Guerra, Media

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

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  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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 loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

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  Fuerte, Militar, Guerra

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• If you wish for peace, understand war.

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  Peace, War, Wish

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• The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.

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  Dream, Military, Hydrogen Bomb

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

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  Lying, Reality, Men

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• The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

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  Military, Army, Levers

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• 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 form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

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  Military, War, Issues

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

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  Military, Long, Promise

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• An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.

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  Military, Army, Aids

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• Cuanto más cerca se encuentre el punto de corte de la fuerza principal del enemigo, más inmediato será el efecto; mientras que cuanto más cerca de la base estratégica tenga lugar, mayor será el efecto.

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  Military, Lying, Cutting

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• Es una locura imaginar que los tipos agresivos, ya sean individuos o naciones, puedan ser comprados... ya que el pago de danegeld estimula la demanda de más danegeld. Pero se les puede frenar. Su propia fe en la fuerza les hace más susceptibles al efecto disuasorio de una formidable fuerza contraria.

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  Military, Demand, Belief

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• Porque incluso la mejor formación para la paz es más teórica que práctica... la experiencia práctica indirecta puede ser la más valiosa porque es infinitamente más amplia.

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  Military, Training, May

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• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

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  Past, Soldier, Spheres

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• 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 no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

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  Military, Sight, Balance

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• A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.

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  Blow, Air, Target

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