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Barbara Tuchman

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

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"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."

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"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996."

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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."

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"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."

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"I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President."

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"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."

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"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"

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