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The greatest skill conducting the greatest military apparatus has been employed; but it has been worse than uselessly employed, through the false policy of the war.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The greatest skill conducting the greatest military apparatus has been employed; but it has been worse than uselessly…”
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Burke argues that despite the skill involved, military efforts can be rendered ineffective by misguided policies.
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