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Football vs. soccer and the American Way of War
An interesting piece looking at the cultural anthropology of the US military. While the authors get Somalia quite wrong IMO, the rest of the article is a great look at a potential explanation for the approach to the "American Way of War" (although it wouldn't explain its creation since you can find the roots in the personnel reforms of Eliahu Root just at the turn of last century and the affirmation on the battlefields of Europe in 1944-45).
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"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3
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