Captain Crunch

I confess, I first starting reading Ayoob's writings in the 1970s, but I have never read In The Gravest Extreme.

I checked it out from my county library today,

Better late than never.

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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

Terry