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Posted by SWJ Editors on February 1, 2009 3:10 AM | Permalink| Print |

Tom Ricks's Inbox at The Washington Post:

Marine Maj. Gen. Larry Taylor, now in Iraq, recently wrote to a young Marine to warn him against assuming that the country's next war will be like those in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan. I was particularly struck by his last point -- that the danger of being wrong about a big war is far greater than the danger of being wrong about a small one...

Tom Ricks's Inbox

Posted by SWJ Editors on February 1, 2009 3:10 AM | Permalink| Print

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MikeF

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Well said.

Posted by MikeF | February 1, 2009 1:31 PM

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