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Lawrence’s second element, the “biological,” concerned the components of war, “sensitive and illogical” human beings. Because of unknown human factors, commanders are forced to hold a body of men in reserve as a safeguard, thus stretching thin their other human resources. Lawrence worked to magnify his enemy’s ignorance: “We were to contain the

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the pathogen theory, espoused by such mainstream scientists as Gregory Cochran.

This book is also the first to pay sustained attention to the important internal-circulation work Guojia liyi gaoyu yigie (7be National InterestAboveAllElse, 2003) by the Beijing-based researcher Ma Dazheng. Ma's importance as both a researcher and a policy adviser on Xinjiang cannot be overestimated.

McCarthy, though, was something new in modern political life: a freelance performer who grasped what many ordinary Americans feared and who had direct access to the media of the day. He exploited the privileges of power and prominence without regard to its responsibilities; to him politics was not about the substantive but the sensational. The