G.W. would of done well to study his history. These two quotes are at the beginning of Dave Webber's wonderful science fiction novel The Short Victorious War. It seems he may of been clairvoyant.
"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution." --V.K. Pleheve, Russian Minister of the Interior to General A.N. Kuropatkin, Minister of War (1903), on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War.
"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." --Robert Lynd
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