Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future. (B. H. Liddell Hart)

Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future.

B. H. Liddell Hart

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