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Mashup

Mashup

Weekend Mashup—August 21 to 23

By Steven Pressfield | Published: August 21, 2009

This past week, the New York Times ran the op-ed “The Land of 10,000 Wars” by Ganesh Sitaraman. Hard to resist the urge to post the entire op-ed here. Check it out if you haven’t read it already.

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Afghanistan

AfghanistanAgoraOn Tribalism

From a Vietnam Vet: A Guest Blog

By Steven Pressfield | Published: July 20, 2009

My dear friend Printer Bowler is a former army captain who served with psychological operations units in Viet Nam (1966-67). He was attached to the Third Marine Amphibious force, I Corps near the DMZ. He’s a perennial history student, now teaching, writing and pumping out radical troop-support propaganda from his home in Montana. It’s a pleasure to post this missive from God’s country:

Da Nang: Capt. Bowler offers a Camel to a buffalo

Da Nang, 1967: Capt. Bowler offers a Camel to a buffalo

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