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The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military’s motives.

— Mark Riebling Rumsfeld’s New Spy Unit (2002)

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Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne.

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France showed as a nation less strength than Churchill showed as a man.

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Freedom's Men: The Cold War Team of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan (2005)

The flaw in the work is the flaw in the man.

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The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.

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