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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; discussing the French army between the World Wars)

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Military Word Of The Day

764 Comm Sqn

764 (Ottawa) Communication Squadron

Today in Military History

October 6

1944:

Operation Switchback

1973:

The Yom Kippur War begins

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