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Meladee McCarty, born in 1951, is an accomplished author. Her works span various genres, known for their unique perspective and profound insights. more

“The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.”

Way Strong Results Enemy Successful Records Military Position Circumstances Direct Pressure Consistently Commanders Under Pressure

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.”

Form Economic Military Approach Direct Strategy Campaigns Conclusion Proportion Hopeful Significance Indirect Rarity Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.”

Humans Fighting Natural Conditions Military Dangerous Obstacles Resistance Uncertain Hazards Formidable

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.”

Mind Effects Military Approach Opponents Disposition Indirect Gauges Dislocation

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow of the stronger in the belief that the latter's defeat will automatically involve the collapse of the others.”

Firsts States Belief Military Army Stronger Defeat Partners Campaigns Latter Collapse

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.”

Mean War Purpose Military Weapons Strategy Military Weapons

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

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