Military Quotes - Page 4

• REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Army, Matter, Congress

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.768, Library of America

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• Military men are the scourges of the world.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Men, World, Politics

  "On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

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• Una guerra aplazada no es una guerra evitada.

  Charlton Heston

  War, Avoided

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• La guerra es la mayor plaga que puede afligir a la humanidad... Cualquier azote es preferible a ella.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Mankind, Plague

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• In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Running, Long, Luck

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• Porque quien habitualmente suprime la verdad en aras del tacto, producirá una deformidad desde el vientre de su pensamiento.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Deformity, Produce, Womb

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Training, May, Indirect

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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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Issues, Decision

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

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• Los peligros naturales, por formidables que sean, son intrínsecamente menos peligrosos y menos inciertos que los peligros de la lucha. Todas las condiciones son más calculables, todos los obstáculos más superables que los de la resistencia humana.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Fighting, Hazards, Resistance

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• El efecto que debe buscarse es la dislocación de la mente y las disposiciones del adversario: tal efecto es el verdadero indicador de un enfoque indirecto.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Mind, Gauges, Opponents

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• 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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Determination, War, Lying

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• While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Numbers, Nerves

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• El nivel superior de la gran estrategia [es] el de dirigir la guerra teniendo en cuenta con visión de futuro el estado de la paz que vendrá después.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Levels, Strategy

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• With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Growing, Offensive, Profit

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• The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Balance, Usual, Essentials

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• Nadie puede calcular con exactitud la capacidad del genio y la estupidez humanas, ni la incapacidad de la voluntad.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Men, Stupidity, Genius

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• In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Enemy, Purpose, Maintenance

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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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Army, Aids, Used

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

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Taken, Order, Enemy

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

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• Lo inesperado no puede garantizar el éxito, pero garantiza las mejores posibilidades de éxito.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Guarantees, Chance, Unexpected

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• Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Enemy, Allies, Injury

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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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, War, Principles

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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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Long, Promise, Keep The Faith

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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.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Demand, Belief, Imagine

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• La caída de los Estados civilizados no suele deberse a los ataques directos de los enemigos, sino a la decadencia interna combinada con las consecuencias del agotamiento en la guerra.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Decay, States

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