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North European and North Atlantic Defense: The Challenges Return
From his history; Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army
during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga.
He made a profound and lasting statement about ideas: Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a
war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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