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Was cost a factor in the senseless deaths of three US soldiers?

5 February 2024

2:30 AM

5 February 2024

2:30 AM

Recall Gen George Patton’s reported exhortation to his troops in Africa in 1943, about winning a war ‘by making some other dumb bastard die for his country’. Looks like the powers that be at the US Department of Defence (DoD) overlooked that memo…

On January 28, 2024, the Washington Post reported that three US soldiers in the US base in Jordan were killed and over 30 were wounded by an enemy drone attack.

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