“We will never win in Afghanistan…”

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“We will never win in Afghanistan,” he told the team. “But know – now and always – that does not matter. That is an irrelevant fact. It gives us a place to go and fight, it gives us a place to go and be warriors. That’s it.”

Major Jim Gant
“American Spartan”

Currently reading “American Spartan.”

Related: The Rains of Castamere, and How to Win in Afghanistan.

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