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2. George Soros, “The Bubble of American Supremacy,” Atlantic Monthly 292, no. 5 (December 2003): 63–66
3. Madeleine K. Albright, “Bridges, Bombs, or Bluster?” Foreign Affairs 82, no. 5 (September/October 2003): 2–18
4. John Nagl’s Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002)
5. Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2008).