Here, on 26 July 1972 the Royal Thai Army burned all its American textbooks. From this dates our victory over the communists. 
 
 Inscription over the incinerator in the Royal Thai Army Headquarters 
 - Stuart Slade, "Successful Counter-insurgency: How Thais Burnt the Books and Beat the Guerillas,"Internal Security & CO-IN, an editorial supplement to International Defense Review 22, (October 1989):21. 
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