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Elliot Ackerman on Storytelling and the Cyclical Nature of History

The Daily Stoic

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The Fifth Act

The war in Afghanistan seems to be a play or movie that has been unfolding for like several hundred years, he says. The only constant in war is us, the humans, and technology changes, but the human element there is sort of the control mechanism. "I was involved at least like five cases of evacuations that were all very distinct"

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