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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.” — William Francis Butler

“That, unfortunately, is the direction that the Pentagon’s decisions are taking the U.S. armed forces.” — Eliot A. Cohen

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/military-education-reforms/683760/