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... instances it has comprehended practically all the known world . Almost always there has been an excluded fringe of barbarians and races esteemed as less than men . The Roman Empire realized the idea in a limited sphere and in a ...
... instances it has comprehended practically all the known world . Almost always there has been an excluded fringe of barbarians and races esteemed as less than men . The Roman Empire realized the idea in a limited sphere and in a ...
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... instance of this logical and neces- sary exaggeration which warfare has undergone , the case of the ' tank . ' The idea of a land ironclad was an old and very ob- vious one , which had been disliked and resisted by military people for ...
... instance of this logical and neces- sary exaggeration which warfare has undergone , the case of the ' tank . ' The idea of a land ironclad was an old and very ob- vious one , which had been disliked and resisted by military people for ...
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... instance , let us take the growth in size , range , and destructiveness of air - war . Few people realize fully what a vast thing the air - service has become . A big aeroplane of the raider type may cost anything up to a hundred ...
... instance , let us take the growth in size , range , and destructiveness of air - war . Few people realize fully what a vast thing the air - service has become . A big aeroplane of the raider type may cost anything up to a hundred ...
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... instances drawn from the land war and sea war . Enormous new organ- izations of anti - submarine flotillas , of mine - field material and its production , of poison - gas manufacture and the like , have , for instance , been called into ...
... instances drawn from the land war and sea war . Enormous new organ- izations of anti - submarine flotillas , of mine - field material and its production , of poison - gas manufacture and the like , have , for instance , been called into ...
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... instance , as the massacre in cold blood of whole regiments of helpless prisoners - would be too strong for the stomach of even the most brutalized people , and would tend to bring war into discredit with all but its monomaniac votaries ...
... instance , as the massacre in cold blood of whole regiments of helpless prisoners - would be too strong for the stomach of even the most brutalized people , and would tend to bring war into discredit with all but its monomaniac votaries ...
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