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The Age of Apocalypse

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

CHAPTER

The Learning Curve

Each episode will draw on a historical blunder with relevant lessons for us today. The French invested huge amounts of resources in the Napoleonic Semaphore only to completely miss the advent of the electronic telegraph. We all know the saying about history repeating itself so it helps to stop and take a look at some really big mistakes from the past.

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