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Squaring equations may lead to wrong solutions but if you need the solution given in Wolframalpha you can do:

var('a b c') ; 
eq=a == b - sqrt(b^2 - 1/4*c^2) 
solve((eq-b)^2,b)
[b == 1/8*(4*a^2 + c^2)/a]