Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Why Don't We Learn from History?

"The most important book by one of the outstanding military authorities of our time." ? Library Journal This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Strategy is a seminal work of military history and theory, a perfect companion to Sun-tzu's The Art of War and Carl von Clauswitz's On War. Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibility, and surprise. He saw that in most military campaigns dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance is prelude to victory. This dislocation results from a strategic indirect approach. Reflect for a moment on the results of direct confrontation (trench war in WW I) versus indirect dislocation (Blitzkreig in WW II). Liddell Hart is also tonic for business and political planning: just change the vocabulary and his concepts fit.

Strategy

The Revolution in Warfare

Krigsteorier, militærteorier, krigsfilosofi, fremtidskrige - et lille essays fra den senere så berømte engelske militærhistoriker Liddell Hart udgivet i 1925, med forskellige betragtninger over krige og krigshistorie, militærhistorie, krigsvæsen, på baggrund af afslutningen på 1. Verdenskrig og fredsforhandlingerne først i Paris, og siden i Versailles. Indhold: The Future of War; The Origins of the False Objective; Permanent National Objects; Historical Examples of the Moral Objective; The Air Weapon; Objections to the Air Attack; Are Armies and Navies Obsolete?; The Naval Weapon; The Army Weapon; The Evolution of "New Model" Armies; Epilogue.

Or, The Future of War

Paris

Robert Graves

Thomas Edward Lawrence

T.E. Lawrence to His Biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart

Account of the European War, some of its chief military figures, episodes and campaigns.

Through the Fog of War

Willing Service Or Compulsion?

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A Greater Than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus

IV. The Revolution: HORATIO NELSON: From The Trafalgar Memorandum; from The Diary NAPOLEON BONAPARTE: From Maxims; from Memoirs DUKE OF WELLINGTON: From Despatches PRIVATE WHEELER: Letter after Waterloo ARMAND DE CAULAINCOURT: From Memoirs ANTOINE DE JOMINI: From Summary of the Art of War KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ: From On War STENDHAL: From The Charterhouse of Parma

Selections from World's Greatest Military Writings

The Sword and the Pen

This text is a treatise on the nature, conduct and operations of war; from minor tactics to grand strategy, from one of the foremost military thinkers of the twentieth century, Liddell Hart.

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart

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