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    THE CONCESSION

    The cheapest, fastest, least politically costly way to do violence — to guard a pipeline, patrol a border, put down a riot, garrison an embassy, run a prison, fly a strike package — was to buy it from someone else,…

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    THE LECTERN AND THE LEDGER

    "The future you're describing," Kessler said, "is one where rich countries fight through proxies, where nobody answerable to a voter ever pulls the trigger, and where peace and war blur together until neither word means anything. The politics of that…

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