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- ↑ John B. Hattendorf, "The Study of War History at Oxford, 1862–1990" in Hattendorf and Malcolm H. Murfett, eds. The Limitations of Military Power: Essays Presented to Professor Norman Gibbs on his eightieth birthday (London: Macmillan, 1990), p. 27.
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