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No war is ever fought exactly like any other before it, and history is full of stories of commanders who came to grief trying to follow an old pattern of victory once too often. Whatever is new in tactics, equipment, or method must be taught at the squad level before a soldier gets into combat.

— Mark W. Clark

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They are men who paid heavily for their page in history.

Calculated Risk (1950)

World War II was an era in which America came of age as a world power. We had and we still have many lessons to learn.

I consider the South Koreans one of our greatest allies, a people who know communism and hate it and are not afraid to die fighting it.

A soldier's life in combat is an endless series of decisions that mean success or failure, and perhaps life or death for himself or his comrades.

Calculated Risk (1950)

Here was our only conquest: all we asked of Italy was enough of her soil in which to bury our gallant dead.

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