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war is the pure and ultimate realm of dumb quantity.
Ben Fountain • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
with many of the men killed in battle,
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
Cannae and the elusive face of battle
Mary Beard • SPQR
The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution
Blaise Pascal: History has reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
In retrospect, the major difference between World War I and the previous limited wars was neither geopolitical nor strategic, but rather, it was monetary. When governments were on a gold standard, they had direct control of large vaults of gold while their people were dealing with paper receipts of this gold. The ease with which a government could
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As Aeschylus, the illustrious Greek tragedian, noted in the fifth century B.C., “In war, truth is the first casualty.”
Jon Krakauer • Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
The Battle of the Bulge cost the Germans between 80,000 and 100,000 men, plus the bulk of Hitler’s armored reserve. The Wehrmacht might continue to fight a defensive war in the west, but it was no longer capable of offensive action.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
when the United States entered World War II, US Army chief of staff General George C. Marshall dismissed three-quarters of division and corps commanders and five hundred colonels during the course of the four-year conflict.8 However, by the time President Johnson was the commander in chief, the careful promotion system of Secretary of Defense Rober
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