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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?

Modern Wisdom

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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

In 1939, before Germany invades Poland, there's murmuring that the wars are fought. The British government decides that they need to start up a secret clandestine gorilla arm. One of them had created the Limpet Mine and he was driving around in an 18 foot high caravan. He would go out and womanize on an evening time and then come in during the day. And he created the first pamphlet of guerrilla warfare ever.

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