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... thousand dollars . At that stage it was still an expedient on trial and in the rough . But its obvious corollary in movable big - gun forts with ammunition tenders forts which will probably be made in parts and built near the point of ...
... thousand dollars . At that stage it was still an expedient on trial and in the rough . But its obvious corollary in movable big - gun forts with ammunition tenders forts which will probably be made in parts and built near the point of ...
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... thousand dollars ; the smallest costs not much less than five thousand ; the pilot and the observer are of the very flower of the youth of the country ; they have probably cost society many thousands of dollars worth of upbringing and ...
... thousand dollars ; the smallest costs not much less than five thousand ; the pilot and the observer are of the very flower of the youth of the country ; they have probably cost society many thousands of dollars worth of upbringing and ...
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... thousands , nay , millions of recruits to their ranks . None the less must we face the fact that , individual stupidities apart , the German theory of war is the only logical one . The theory is laid down by Clausewitz at the very ...
... thousands , nay , millions of recruits to their ranks . None the less must we face the fact that , individual stupidities apart , the German theory of war is the only logical one . The theory is laid down by Clausewitz at the very ...
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... thousand . If the procedure were rea- sonable at all , it would be the more reasonable the smaller the force employed . There is one theory , indeed , which , if we accept its initial pos- tulate , would make limited warfare logical ...
... thousand . If the procedure were rea- sonable at all , it would be the more reasonable the smaller the force employed . There is one theory , indeed , which , if we accept its initial pos- tulate , would make limited warfare logical ...
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... thousand yards , are oblong inclosures , each with brown walls and a little loopholed tower at one corner . These inclosures are the villages of the Pathan tribes which inhabit the valley , and in the towers are men with rifles ...
... thousand yards , are oblong inclosures , each with brown walls and a little loopholed tower at one corner . These inclosures are the villages of the Pathan tribes which inhabit the valley , and in the towers are men with rifles ...
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