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Ben macintyre sas7/6/2023 It's a lesson that hardly warrants a full library: an aphorism on a kitchen wall should be enough if the message resounding in your own heart doesn't suffice. But what is there to learn? Just play nice and don't go murdering each other. People say it's important to read up on wars, on how and why they were conducted, in order to learn from the experience. Both the intellectual and the romantic approach do nothing for me to detract from my conviction that at the root of war there is pure evil, plain and simple, no matter how much yarn you spin around it. All these pages that glorify, rationalise and romanticise the biggest atrocities mankind has committed never managed to ignite my interest much. The territory of military history books in bookshops is mostly undiscovered terrain for me. "With correct timing and in suitable country, with or without the help of the local population, a small specially trained force can achieve results out of all proportion to its numbers."
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