B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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• The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
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  • Peace