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    ALL’S FAIR…?

    Dec 03, 2019 2 minutes
    BY ROBERT BATEMAN

    T WAS LATE 1939 WHEN, with war rearing its head in Europe, the United States started planning a series of major military exercises. These were to be massive U.S. Army maneuvers. Perhaps the best known of these were the Louisiana and Carolina maneuvers of 1940 and 1941. Preceding these was a mildly smaller exercise—officially called the Third Army Maneuvers—that also took place

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