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  • America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.

    Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.52, Broadway Books