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Any plan for peace is apt to be not only futile but dangerous. Like most planning, unless of a mainly material kind, it breaks down through disregard of human nature.
B. H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
He mastered defense matters, read up the classics on strategy, Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Liddell Hart. He subscribed to military journals to know the latest in military weaponry. He sent me books and articles, sidelined and flagged, insisting that I must know enough to decide what I had to approve.
Graham Allison, Ali Wyne, Robert D. Blackwill, Henry A. Kissinger • Lee Kuan Yew
The habit of violence takes much deeper root in irregular warfare than it does in regular warfare. In the latter it is counteracted by the habit of obedience to constituted authority, whereas the former makes a virtue of defying authority and violating rules. It becomes very difficult to rebuild a country, and a stable state, on such an undermined
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Future generals might find it useful to reflect upon the fact that on the eve of battle Eisenhower was cognizant of the responsibility he bore to preserve Europe’s historic shrines and symbols.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
In the conquest of mind-space it is the inches, consolidated, that count.
B.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?

What can the individual learn from history—as a guide to living? Not what to do but what to strive for. And what to avoid in striving. The importance and intrinsic value of behaving decently. The importance of seeing clearly—not least of seeing himself clearly.
B.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
It is a recurrent illusion in history that the enemy of the time is essentially different, in the sense of being more evil, than any in the past.
B. H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
This political confidence trick, itself a familiar string of tricks, has been repeated all down the ages. Yet it rarely fails to take in a fresh generation.