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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

- Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart (Strategy, 1954; discussing the French army between the World Wars)

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Military Word Of The Day

33 CER

33 Combat Engineer Regiment

Today in Military History

December 17

1939:

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan agreement signed

1939:

Canadian troops to arrive in Britain

1944:

Massacre of US troops near Malmedy by SS troops of Kampfgruppe Peiper

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