Interestingly, the reason JFK did not launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against ths USSR at the height of the cuban missile crisis= as advised by the Cheifs of Staff was that he had just finished reading Tuchman and saw how people could be drawn into a disastrous war if they didnt fully exhaust diplomacy...so he picked up the red phone and called...and we're all alive now because of it.
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I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot!
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