Complacency in High Places

GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT

Basil Liddell Hart has been called the greatest British military historian of our times by no less eminent a soldier than Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery; a description which, as has been said of Lord Montgomery’s own memoirs, is something less than exhaustive. Liddell Hart is indeed an accomplished writer of military history, but he is also an original thinker on strategy and tactics, an innovator whose ideas profoundly affected the very course of history itself. Therein lies Liddell Hart’s personal tragedy, for if ever there was a prophet whose teachings went unheeded in his own country in the hour of peril, but were heeded only too well by his country’s enemies, Liddell Hart is that man.

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GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT

Basil Liddell Hart has been called the greatest British military historian of our times by no less eminent a soldier than Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery; a description which, as has been said of Lord Montgomery’s own memoirs, is something less than exhaustive. Liddell Hart is indeed an accomplished writer of military history, but he is also an original thinker on strategy and tactics, an innovator whose ideas profoundly affected the very course of history itself. Therein lies Liddell Hart’s personal tragedy, for if ever there was a prophet whose teachings went unheeded in his own country in the hour of peril, but were heeded only too well by his country’s enemies, Liddell Hart is that man.