"Clausewitz's principle of force without limit and without calculation of cost fits, and is only fit for, a hate-maddened mob. It is the negation of statesmanship—and of intelligent strategy, which seeks to serve the ends of policy."
B. H. Liddell Hart

January 1, 1970

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The Ghost of Napoleon (1933), p. 122

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