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...These boys may be over 21, but they won't be men until they realize that no war can be fought at a convenient time or place. We have only today's war, and it must be fought today, on today's battlefield...
Best Reading 1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. It is the year of Hastings, and the story of the battlefield where one King (William the Conqueror) was spawned and another (King Harold I of England) died...
There are few militants left among the people, Nhat Hanh continued, and many South Vietnamese soldiers desert because it is safer in jail than on the battlefield...
...global vision, still thought it easy for the West to regard itself as the center of the world. To many of his era the periphery of that world lay somewhere in the jungle, well beyond the enclave of civilization. But yesterday's jungle is often today's battlefield. Nowadays, few sophisticated liberal experts on international affairs would regard any nation, even those known only to stamp collectors, as too distant or too obscure to matter...
...reasons having nothing to do with France and its obligations to the alliance. None of that would force us to declare war, but it would make us a target for atomic bombs." In fact, Pompidou believes that the U.S. concept of flexible response might well turn Europe into a battlefield for U.S. and Russian weapons and thus "limit the area for atomic war to spare Russian and American territory. What we have against this doctrine is that it is specifically conceived as a function of the American geographical situation." The U.S. might get 15 minutes' notice of any missile...