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It's Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses (open.substack.com)
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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The first casualty in war is truth. Aeschylus

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that quote is not from aeschylus, and it's much more modern, since "truth" in warfare during ancient times wasn't what we would consider today as "information warfare", but rather deceptions in the battlefield