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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Decide Helplessness History Hope Hopelessness Issue Lives Loss War

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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Decide Helplessness Hope Hopelessness Issues Life Loss Rather Than War

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

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Dependent Few Guerrilla Kind Many Support Waged War

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

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Bar Chief Complacent Knowledge Present Pursuit Satisfaction

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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Chief Human War Will

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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.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Action Categories Combat Elements Every Fall Guarding Here Hitting Main Moving Seen Then Three War Whether

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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.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Counting Dead Drain Fruitful His Less Lies Man More Only Progressive Reality Side Still Than While Wound Wounded

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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.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Action Discover Duty Endeavor Every Experiences Future His Immediate Particular Past Reflect Should Soldier Sphere Which

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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

~B. H. Liddell Hart

Topics: Historian Mark Sake Search Truth

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: October 31st, 1895

Died: January 29th, 1970

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