Strategy: The Indirect Approach¶
Hart, B. H. L. (1954). Strategy: The Indirect Approach: The Indirect Approach.
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Primes¶
- Maneuver
- Military operations. Changing physical position on terrain — envelopment, flanking, withdrawal to interior lines, occupying high ground — to create force-on-force conditions favorable to the maneuvering side, decisive without proportional resource superiority at the point of decision.
This sourceArgues that decisive advantage comes from indirect maneuver onto a position of dislocation rather than from frontal attrition at the point of strength.
- Military operations. Changing physical position on terrain — envelopment, flanking, withdrawal to interior lines, occupying high ground — to create force-on-force conditions favorable to the maneuvering side, decisive without proportional resource superiority at the point of decision.
- Offensive Action
- Liddell-Hart's indirect approach moves into product strategy as enter-through-the-underserved-segment-and-expand, the same structural prescription that disruption theory and blue-ocean strategy repackage.
This sourceArgues for the indirect approach — striking where the opponent is unprepared and changing the dimension of contest.
- Liddell-Hart's indirect approach moves into product strategy as enter-through-the-underserved-segment-and-expand, the same structural prescription that disruption theory and blue-ocean strategy repackage.
Mechanisms¶
- Indirect Approach Campaign
- It lets a weaker or later party win by refusing the fight the stronger party has prepared for, an idea B. H. Liddell Hart elevated into a general theory of strategy.
This sourceDevelops the indirect approach into a general strategic framework.
- It lets a weaker or later party win by refusing the fight the stronger party has prepared for, an idea B. H. Liddell Hart elevated into a general theory of strategy.
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