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I'd say Forrest at Brice's Crossroads, a tactical masterpiece that Forrest literally saw unfold in his mind, and he said exactly what would happen before it did. He absolutely hit it on the nose, including the timing of each point and event in the battle.
He had gone from being an amateur to become the master of the professional officer class, culminating that day in the toughest OJT in the world, the soldier's crucible of combat.
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
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