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We persist in regarding ourselves as a great power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power we shall soon cease to be a great nation.

— Henry Tizard Memo written as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence (1949)

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