Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. (B. H. Liddell Hart)

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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