For those who have en-dured combat, Carl von Clausewitz's classic military metaphor about "the fog and friction of war" needs no explanation; it's a truism. For those of us who have never served, the line is only understood rationally. No doubt the tone and tenor of this review would have been different if it had been written in the guts of an Apache helicopter or Abrams tank on a combat mission. Then again

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