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Non-Fiction

kairos12

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5. Read it many years ago.

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2020, 10:39 PM

Jan 2020

Systems analysis, data driven wars by guys in white shirts and thin ties didn't work. Won't work now either, even if the fashion has changed.

Signed an infantry soldier.

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