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It was saddening to discover how many apparently honorable men would stoop to almost to anything to help their own advancement.
B.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
To view any question subjectively is self-blinding.
B.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
The ethos of blitzkrieg was “speed of attack through speed of communications.”
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
This is the stuff empire-builders are made of.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The answer to the conundrum of the Western Front, in purely military terms, did not lie just with new instruments of war, however; it entailed developing new techniques for combining artillery, infantry, tanks, and airplanes and developing a doctrine that emphasized flexibility over rigidity and innovation over obedience to long-established “princi
... See moreEliot A. Cohen • Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War
To say that a social order is maintained by military force immediately raises the question: what maintains the military order?
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
No army, however brave, can win when its generals are weak.
Kuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
Peacetime CEO works to minimize conflict. Wartime CEO heightens the contradictions.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The main purpose of war is to achieve the state that would have obtained if there had been no war.