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The Disease of Victory
Patton with parnable pride claims to have moved further and faster than any other army in the history of the United States. The disease of victory would rot the army from within, leading future commanders to overestimate their own battlefield prowess. Patton's passion for military life ran so deep that he considered it as natural for me to be a soldier as to breathe. War, he claimed, is the only place where a man really lives.