Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:23:28 AM
"Strategic concepts are powerful, and potentially more powerful than atomic bombs. It is possible to achieve great things without using military force at all. In the end, when your enemy has become exhausted by external struggles and internal dissentions, you can use your little finger (militarily speaking) to knock him down."
Grand Strategy
by J. R. Nyquist
The famous strategic thinker B.H. Liddell Hart explained that grand strategy was a complicated and enormous subject in itself. He wrote that a volume on grand strategy "would require not only a much larger volume, but a separate volume [than a book on military strategy] -- for while grand strategy should control [military] strategy, its principles often run counter to those which prevail in the field of [military] strategy."
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