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    Oct 26, 2021 1 minute

    JOHN C. McMANUS (“What Mattered Most”) is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of U.S. Military History at Missouri University of Science and Technology. His article is drawn from his latest book, (November 2021), the second in a trilogy that sheds new

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