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More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict when Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the U.S. Army War College and many other military institutions across the world. A passage from it describing an ultimatum Athens More

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