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“The real issues are whether the power of Western Civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands, shall defy and defeat Communism; whether the rule of men who shoot their prisoners, enslave their citizens, and deride the dignity of man, shall displace the rule of those to whom the individual and his individual rights are sacred; whether we are to survive with God’s hand to guide and lead us, or to perish in the dead existence of a Godless world.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

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“But control does not imply petty interference.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

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“War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

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“A nation that does not prepare for all the forms of war should then renounce the use of war in national policy. A people that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

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“Yet every democratic government is reluctant to face the fact. Reservists and citizen-soldiers stand ready, in every free nation, to stand to the colors and die in holocaust, the big war. Reservists and citizen-soldiers remain utterly reluctant to stand and die in anything less. None want to serve on the far frontiers, or to maintain lonely, dangerous vigils on the periphery of Asia. There has been every indication that mass call-ups for cold war moves may result in mass disaffection.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

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