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  "path": "/2026/03/11/operation-epic-fail/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-11T18:30:02.000Z",
  "site": "https://dissentwatch.com",
  "tags": [
    "#Column3",
    "2026 Iran War",
    "asymmetric warfare",
    "autodidacticism",
    "battle of Carrhae",
    "battle of Zama",
    "Carl von Clausewitz",
    "Crassus",
    "crisis of competence",
    "deception",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Francisco Franco",
    "General Bradley",
    "grand strategy",
    "Greg Conte",
    "Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord",
    "logistics",
    "Millenium Challenge 2002",
    "Niccolò Machiavelli",
    "North American New Right",
    "On War",
    "Pete Hegseth",
    "Ron Unz",
    "Russo-Japanese War",
    "Scipio Africanus",
    "Stehen Miller",
    "Ukraine War",
    "video games",
    "war",
    "Warcraft",
    "ZOG"
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  "textContent": "2,014 words Given their bellicose nature and what is at stake, you would think that Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Pentagon busybodies would heed Machiavelli’s advice that “A prince should have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline.” But the 2026 Iran […]",
  "title": "Operation Epic Fail"
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