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"Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will or the power."
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T. R. FehrenbachA nation that does not prepare for all the forms of war should then re — T. R. Fehrenbach
"A nation that does not prepare for all the forms of war should then renounce the use of war in national policy. A people that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal."
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T. R. Fehrenbach
T. R. Fehrenbach
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Theodore Reed "T. R." Fehrenbach Jr. was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission (1987–1991). He graduated from Princeton University in 1947 with a degree in modern languages and wrote more than twenty books, including the bestseller Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans and This Kind of War, about the Korean War. Senator John McCain called this
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"If war is to have any meaning at all, its purpose must be to establish control over peoples and territories, and ultimately, this can be done only as Alexander the Great did it, on the ground."
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"America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone."
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"The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary."
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"War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity."
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"There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle."
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