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    Political battles

    Sep 01, 2022 2 minutes

    Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

    by Lawrence Freedman

    Allen Lane, 608 pages, £30

    When Britain’s leading historian of military strategy writes of the influence of politics on postwar global conflict, and includes a chapter on the present Russo-Ukrainian War, it behoves us all to take notice. When it is moreover couched in terms that are as

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