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    The American way:

    Throw money at it!!

    4 words

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    Here are the winning submissions at War on the Rocks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SWJED View Post
    Here are the winning submissions at War on the Rocks.
    *Giggle*

    2. Jack McDonald, War Studies Department, King’s College London:

    Use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Occasionally eat a nut, occasionally hit own nuts. Everyone else is scared, horrified and awed in equal measure.
    Last edited by AdamG; 12-10-2013 at 05:14 PM.
    A scrimmage in a Border Station
    A canter down some dark defile
    Two thousand pounds of education
    Drops to a ten-rupee jezail


    http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg

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    Use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Occasionally eat a nut, occasionally hit own nuts. Everyone else is scared, horrified and awed in equal measure.
    Unfortunately, the world remains aghast that the US does not exhibits any 'staying power'.

    It is like - Nut, screws and bolts!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morgan View Post
    The American way:

    Throw money at it!!

    4 words
    Four words, just FOUR words? That's far too ECONOMICAL for America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tukhachevskii View Post
    Four words, just FOUR words? That's far too ECONOMICAL for America.
    Naw...it's the vision statement for the plan. Wait 'till you hit the actual mission statement.....
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
    T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
    Naw...it's the vision statement for the plan. Wait 'till you hit the actual mission statement.....

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