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Ensure That Both Plan And Dispositions Are Flexible, Adaptable To Circumstances. Your Plan Should Foresee And Provide For A Next Step In Case Of Success Or Failure.

It Is Folly To Imagine That The Aggressive Types, Whether Individuals Or Nations, Can Be Bought Off ... Since The Payment Of Danegeld Stimulates A Demand For More Danegeld. But They Can Be Curbed. Their Very Belief In Force Makes Them More Susceptible To The Deterrent Effect Of A Formidable Opposing Force.

Natural Hazards, However Formidable, Are Inherently Less Dangerous And Less Uncertain Than Fighting Hazards. All Conditions Are More Calculable, All Obstacles More Surmountable Than Those Of Human Resistance.

Air Forces Offered The Possibility Of Striking A The Enemy's Economic And Moral Centres Without Having First To Achieve 'the Destruction Of The Enemy's Main Forces On The Battlefield'. Air-power Might Attain A Direct End By Indirect Means - Hopping Over Opposition Instead Of Overthrowing It.

The Downfall Of Civilized States Tends To Come Not From The Direct Assaults Of Foes, But From Internal Decay Combined With The Consequences Of Exhaustion In War.