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Article: Winning battles, not hearts; The cold reality of war.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2004
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Byline: Edward Bernard Glick, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Events in both Israel and Iraq prove that the winning-hearts-and-minds approach to ending wars and insurrections has the same success rate as getting rain by praying for it. If it were indeed the key to victory, armies would have exchanged their weapons for public-relations kits ages ago.
The ancient Persians conquered the Babylonians, and the Greeks the Persians, and the Romans the Greeks, and the Turks the Byzantines, and the British the Turks not by capturing their hearts and minds, but by overwhelming them with so much might that they lost their will to fight and surrendered.
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