Tag: War
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What If STARTING World War Three Was The RIGHT Thing To Do?
For the moment, let’s put nomenclature aside. History will be the ultimate arbiter of whether what’s happening now is or isn’t “World War Three”. For argument’s sake, let’s say it isn’t “World War Three” – not yet. But World War Three could absolutely happen and, in theory, it would be a clear escalation beyond the…
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Dear America — It Doesn’t Matter Whether We Know It Or Not — WE’RE AT WAR
We all know the story of December 7, 1941. At around 7:15 a.m. the Japanese Imperial Fleet attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Just like that — America was “at war”. But, the Japanese had set their war machine in motion years before — designing it for just such a scenario. In…
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Just Because You Don’t Know You’re At War, Doesn’t Mean You AREN’T At War. Ask The Folks Who Lived At Pearl Harbor…
Ever been cheated on in a relationship? Ever discover the cheating was going on practically forever? What hurts most about it is the deception, right? YOU thought your relationship was one thing but, in fact, your relationship was something else entirely: YOU were the dummy. Just because you didn’t know you were living a lie…
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Never Mind ‘Winning The War’ If You End Up ‘Losing The Peace’ That Follows
History is littered with the lamentable stories of Cultures that ‘won wars’ but lost the subsequent peace that should have been the spoil of their victory. Case in point: The Union (The United States of America) v The Confederate States of America. Grant accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. The Civil War ending was the Union’s…