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| | Insider Notes from the Pentagon: 100 Years’ War |
 | | Hundred Years’ War, running from 1337 to 1453. Well, that’s actually more like 116 years, but if we can’t fudge numbers, we shouldn’t be working at the Pentagon. |
 | | Edward III was only 18, but had Texas-sized ideas on who should rule the world. Naturally, France didn’t really see all the finer points of Edward’s claim, and invoked the Salic Law (circa 480 A.D.) that prohibited inheritance through female lines. Kind of like an early version of international law and about as effective. |
 | | Mercenaries and military-congressional-industrial entities profiting from all angles in continual war, domestic economies squeezed to pay for military adventurism while domestic security suffers sclerosis, near-sightedness and dry rot, and the “enemy” taking long deep draws on the pipe of religio-righteous nationalism. Mr. |
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