The Importance of Military Blunders

"All too often, many generals do not learn from the past," he says. "There's a power to physical objects that just reading words on a page doesn't have." When you get behind the scenes and you're looking at documentation that's a thousand plus years old, it's a lot different than just seeing some particular article on Wikipedia,. I mean, it really changes you physically, mentally, spiritually. The fact that they're holding it represents a tragedy because it means somebody lost it at some point and it was preserved for us to find today.

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