In which we learn through the logical reasoning of a 33-year-old book that B. H. Liddell Hart wasn’t all that.

I just read “Liddell Hart and the Weight of History,” a book from 1988 by the political scientist John Mearsheimer. I’d seen this book referred to in a review of another book by the same author, and I was intrigued. I read a bunch of B. H. Liddell Hart’s books many years ago—I suspect I’m …