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The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.


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The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.



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The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.

The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.



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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.



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Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.



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For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.





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