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Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes--toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of consensual governments in their places, and losing fewer soldiers in the effort than during many individual campaigns of the Second World War or Korea--to an ever-innovative American military that learned quickly from mistakes of the kind described in Finding the Target and War Made New. The somet..
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The great American contribution to the Red Army was not just food stocks and strategic materials but nearly four hundred thousand heavy transport trucks, which eventually allowed Stalin a mobility and rapidity lacking among his Nazi enemies on the eastern front.
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Physical deprivation and hunger are one thing; the poverty of the mind and psyche is quite another. Crashing Costco to find bulk beans and rice is not the same as flash-mobbing for Air Jordans and iPhones. How odd that our cultural elite and our dependent poor are somewhat alike, in a symbiotic relationship in which the latter guilt-trip the former for entitlements, with the assurance that the top of the pyramid is safe and free to fritter ..
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officials were losing their jobs over their involvement in real collusion that as of yet lacked a special investigator or counsel.
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Out of spite, McCain had flipped on his earlier support of Obamacare just to cast the deciding vote that defeated Trump's effort to repeal and replace it.
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Despite the far greater carnage between 1939 and 1945, seventy years later historians rarely write of the political or strategic futility of the Second World War as they so often do of the First. Apparently, losing sixty million for a subsequent general seventy-year peace and the end of nightmarish ideologies was defensible, while losing fifteen to twenty million for a twenty-one-year hiatus was sometimes not.
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agenda. These themes frame the formal plan of this book. The argument covers the three years since Trump announced his presidential bid in July 2015 to mid-2018, as he neared the end of the second year of his presidency. Part 1, the first three chapters
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It proved almost impossible to square the circle of ensuring crew safety and comfort when trapped in a riveted or welded steel shell of stored gasoline, high-explosive shells and machine gun bullets, sparking engine plugs, and incoming projectiles.
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Nicholas Monsarrat's epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at sea amid
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The system rather than the man was what would win the war.
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Barack Obama, for at least the first two years after his departure, had all but destroyed the traditional role of Democrats as a federal, state, and local majority party--and in its place had paved the way for a new neosocialist ascendency.
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In Trump's mind, the problem with federal agencies was not just that they overreached and were weaponized, but that their folds of bureaucracy led to incompetency.
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Only about one in a thousand of DACA's participants had joined the military.
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one can imagine what a candidate Trump would have done with the Wright-Obama connection had he been the 2008 Republican nominee.
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close cooperation with Saudi Arabia against the Shiite Houthis in Yemen. Apparently, Trump figured that to demand cessations of these operations that others had started would call upon him the wrath of hawkish Republicans and fuel charges of isolationism
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One-third of all American residents currently on welfare live in California, as do a quarter of the nation's illegal aliens--a state where one in four was not born in the United States, but otherwise with just 12 percent of the population.
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Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant--and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civilian.
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hue, his combed-over
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Often the white elite signaled their disgust of the "white privilege" of the disintegrating middle class as a means of exempting their own quite genuine white privilege of insider contacts, professional degrees, wealth, inheritance, and influence."
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The larger themes of the new signature progressivism were identity politics, radical environmentalism, and redistributionism.
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Hillary apparently never appreciated that when she went after Trump's sins of the flesh, it would quickly prove a losing proposition.
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It may be now blasphemous to concede that much of the current division in the country was deliberately whipped up by Obama. Often in mellifluous tones and with near academic authority, he accentuated racial and cultural differences.
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