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Type: Leader Born: 1840 Death: September 21, 1904 |
History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.