War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end. (Thomas Paine)

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.

Thomas Paine

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