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This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart

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ORO
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Operations Room Officer


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Today in Military History

August 3



1914:

Germny declares war on France, Order for British mobilization


1941:

100,000 Soviet troops encircled in the Uman pocket


2005:

Sgt. (ret) Ernest A. SMOKEY Smith VC OBC, Canada's last Victoria Cross Recipeint dies in Vancouver BC at age 91




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