B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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• History
• Victory
• Complacency

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• As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • History
  • Victory