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[H]istorical patterns are clear: When Europeans feel sufficiently threatened–even when the threat's concocted nonsense–they don't just react, they overreact with stunning ferocity. One of their more humane (and frequently employed) techniques has been ethnic cleansing.

— Ralph Peters

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We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? (1999)

To those who solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The War after Armageddon (2009)

The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.

Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002)

To the flesh-and-blood men who struggled, before we turned them into bronze and marble.

Hell or Richmond (2013)

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

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