Liddell Hart

American  

[lid-l hahrt] / ˈlɪd l ˈhɑrt /

noun

1. (Sir) Basil Henry, 1895–1970, English military historian and strategist.

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Liddell Hart British  

/ ˈlɪdəl hɑːt /

noun

1. Sir Basil Henry. 1895–1970, British military strategist and historian: he advocated the development of mechanized warfare before World War II

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Example Sentences

If you want to understand the Ukrainian way of war, you could do worse than to pick up, as I recently did, a 1954 book called “Strategy” by the influential British military thinker Basil Liddell Hart.

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Having been gassed during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, where much of his battalion was wiped out, Captain Liddell Hart had developed a burning hatred of brutish generals who led their men to slaughter in frontal and futile attacks on the enemy.

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Rejecting Clausewitz, Liddell Hart embraced the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, who wrote, “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

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In tracts that he began publishing in the late 1920s, Liddell Hart surveyed thousands of years of military history to argue that the key to victory was to strike where least expected, dislocating the enemy psychologically and materially and making possible a relatively bloodless victory.

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Many historians have critiqued Liddell Hart for twisting history to make every conflict fit his argument.

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