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[the] Aim Is Not So Much To Seek Battle As To Seek A Strategic Situation So Advantageous That If It Does Not Of Itself Produce The Decision, Its Continuation By A Battle Is Sure To Achieve This. In Other Words, Dislocation Is The Aim Of Strategy.

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.

Guerrilla War Is A Kind Of War Waged By The Few But Dependent On The Support Of Many.

The More Usual Reason For Adopting A Strategy Of Limited Aim Is That Of Awaiting A Change In The Balance Of Force ... The Essential Condition Of Such A Strategy Is That The Drain On Him Should Be Disproportionately Greater Than On Oneself.

It Should Be The Aim Of Grand Strategy To Discover And Pierce The Achilles' Heel Of The Opposing Government's Power To Make War. Strategy, In Turn, Should Seek To Penetrate A Joint In The Harness Of The Opposing Forces. To Apply One's Strength Where The Opponent Is Strong Weakens Oneself Disproportionately To The Effect Attained. To Strike With Strong Effect, One Must Strike At Weakness.