Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart

B. H. Liddell Hart

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Bars

Pursuit

Satisfaction

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 forces on the battlefield’. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means – hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

Air

Mean

Military

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

Military

Opponents

Resistance

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

Next Steps

Should

Thinking

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 war or pugilism.

Fall

Moving

War

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience … indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

May

Military

Training

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Endurance

Ideas

Self

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Deformity

Military

Produce

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

Kind

Support

War

If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man’s life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

Lying

Mean

War

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Allies

Army

Art

Balance

Bars

Causes

Country

Dangerous

Decay

Deformity

Direct Approach

Endurance

Enemy

Errors

Evil

Expectations

Eye

Fall

Gains

Giving

Growing

Historian

Hopeful

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Indirect

Issues

Kind

Law

Levels

Levers

Lines

Loss

Lying

Mark

May

Mean

Men

Military

Moving

Next Steps

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Power

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Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart

B. H. Liddell Hart

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

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 war or pugilism.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience … indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

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