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By
Lewis Page
July 7, 2006
Lewis Page is the author of Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs: Waste and Blundering in the Armed Forces (Heinemann). Parts of this article were based on ideas developed in the afterword to the paperback edition, to be published in April
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