Résumé :
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"In the kingdom(s) of the West, something is rotten. Collectively, the countries of NATO are responsible for almost two thirds of global military spending. In terms of military technology, particularly electronics, communications and logistics, they have left the rest so far behind that it is no contest. Yet ever since the Korean War ended in 1953, almost every time they went abroad and fought non-Westerners they were defeated and ended up by having to withdraw. What went wrong? How did the ferocious soldiers who, between the discovery of America in 1492 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, brought practically the entire world under their control, turn into pussycats? The present study, unique of its kind, provides the answers. Either do what has to be done, it suggests, or go under"--Back cover.
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