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> [“War. In 1901, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, where he marched before Stonewall Jackson’s widow. He soon joined the Army, which then was recovering from its low ebb of the 1890s, the decade when the frontier officially closed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/war-in-1901-he-graduated-from-the-virginia-military-institute-where/)

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## More by Thomas E. Ricks

> [“Ask an American soldier to identify himself, and he probably will say he is “in the Army.” By contrast, a Marine— especially if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/ask-an-american-soldier-to-identify-himself-and-he-probably-will-say/)

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> [“The natural state of man is war. I think that peace is an interval for preparation.” The novel is significant because”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/the-natural-state-of-man-is-war-i-think-that-peace-is-an-interval-for/)

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> [“the platoon moves out to the rifle range barracks for basic rifle training . The gospel according to Parris Island is that shooting accurately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/the-platoon-moves-out-to-the-rifle-range-barracks-for-basic-rifle/)

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> [“Any Marine veteran can reach back thirty or forty years and summon the names of his drill instructors. Flying in a Marine jet over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/any-marine-veteran-can-reach-back-thirty-or-forty-years-and-summon/)

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> [“Lt. Gen. Zinni has distilled his experiences in a talk on “twenty lessons learned”that feels like a modern appendix to the Small Wars Manual.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/lt-gen-zinni-has-distilled-his-experiences-in-a-talk-on-twenty/)

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> [“What bothers him most about today’s military, he goes on to say, is careerism. It has eroded the other services, he warns, and is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/what-bothers-him-most-about-today-s-military-he-goes-on-to-say-is/)

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> [“Overall, Zinni’s rules read like an updating of how to apply the Marine Corps culture to today’s conflicts: Stay loose. Stay focused. Keep it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/overall-zinni-s-rules-read-like-an-updating-of-how-to-apply-the/)

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> [“Overall, Zinni’s rules read like an updating of how to apply the Marine Corps culture to today’s conflicts: Stay loose. Stay focused. Keep it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/overall-zinni-s-rules-read-like-an-updating-of-how-to-apply-the-2/)

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> [“War. In 1901, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, where he marched before Stonewall Jackson’s widow. He soon joined the Army, which then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/war-in-1901-he-graduated-from-the-virginia-military-institute-where/)

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> [“As the sociologist Ann Swidler has observed, “common sense”is really just deeply embedded culture: “the set of assumptions so unselfconscious as to seem a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/as-the-sociologist-ann-swidler-has-observed-common-sense-is-really/)

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> [“break his hold on power, as…we had come to expect,” the first president Bush and his national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, wrote in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-ricks-2/break-his-hold-on-power-as-we-had-come-to-expect-the-first-president/)

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