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<• CHAPTER ONE

The soldier stands alone. In the time when he must either
succeed or encounter failure that will follow him beyond his
grave, he has only a little time and only two considerations —
his mission, and what strength he has within himself by which
he may accomplish it. Whether he commands a million other
men or only the weapon in his own hand, the soldier in the
moment of decision is of all men most alone- Whatever of
harmony he has achieved in his adjustment to the world as he
knows it is the source of his strength. If he has adjusted him-
self only to chaos, it is in this time that he will dissolve and
lose himself in its nothingness.

—Joseph Maxwell Cameron, The Anatomy of Military Merit
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The most important fact of the first half of the Twentieth
Century is that the United States and England both speak
English. The most important fact of the second half will be
that the dominant race in both the United States and the
Soviet Union is white.

—Herman Kahn, I960
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Crofton's Encyclopedia of Contemporary History and Social
Issues (3rd Edition):

CoDominiumi The first attempts by the United States to forge
a CoDominium alliance were defeated by the failure of an
attempted Communist Party coup and the consequent
deposition of Gorbachev. The Soviet Union splintered along
national and ethnic lines; but when the economic situations of
both the former Soviet Union and the United States continued to
deteriorate, many in both nations looked back on the Cold War
with nostalgia. When a new series of military and political coups
resurrected the USSR, the United States was quick to Join its
former enemy in an alliance that established the supremacy of

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the two dominant nations over the rest of the world. The alliance
was one of convenience rather than genuine friendship....

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