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As we learned so painfully in Vietnam and the Russians learned in Afghanistan, military superpowers can be brought to their knees by enemies who have geography and zeal on their side, whatever their number. The lessons of David and Goliath are as fresh today as they were in biblical times.

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My father, Red Brokaw, was a blue-ribbon member of that fix-it generation. My mother learned not to say aloud what she needed, say a new ironing board, because my father would immediately build her one. She liked to buy something from the store occasionally.

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