American weapons until after the war. Shrewd adversaries will locate their military bases in civilian areas or near cultural and religious landmarks. All of Amer- ica's weapons, the authors warn "will do little to dissuade an antagonist who knows that we like neither to suffer nor inflict casualties, military or civilian." At some point, they predict, the United States will be unable even to contemplate war, and "isolation will eventually be our answer."

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