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“As U.S. forces later discovered in the long Vietnam War, conventional and guerrilla operations are different items; expertise in the one form of warfare does not translate to the other.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

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“Postwar U.S. policies in Japan, enforced by boots on the ground, succeeded beyond expectations, transforming a bitter foe into America’s strongest ally in Asia.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949

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“We may not even meet again, Francis, till the map of Europe has been rewritten with the blood of many of our friends and millions of our country-people.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Double Traitor

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“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

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“To the bulk of the English people India was a remote, fantastic, almost inaccessible land, to which adventurous poor young men went out, to return after many years very rich and very choleric old gentlemen. It was difficult for the English to conceive what the life of these countless brown millions in the eastern sunshine could be. Their imaginations declined the task. India”
― H.G. Wells, A Short History of the World

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