B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
Hart, B. H. Liddell. Strategy. 2nd rev. ed., Praeger, 1967.
During his revolutionary battles in Kaingsi, Mao reduced his theory of guerrilla tactics to a poem:
Referring to Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, who was a forceful administrator constantly telling all others what to do:
He was arguing for a preemptive attack rather than wait to be attacked.
He was referring to the United States fighting against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan to keep Al Qaeda from attacking the United States easily.
He had wanted more troops for the Afghan War than President Obama would approve. The Republican members of the Congress tried to make the difference a major issue of a President not supporting his commanders. The General made this brilliant response.
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. He argued that frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as happened in the First World War. He instead recommended the "indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armoured formations.
