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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory, tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Sun Tzu The Art of War
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Stwriley's Profile
High school science teacher and robotics mentor. Originally a political/military historian specializing in early modern and modern strategy and grand strategy. Life long atheist, philosophical naturalist and left/libertarian progressive.
Groups: Firearms Law and Policy
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