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I loved The Call of the Wild. I was not expecting this reaction, was only reading this book because it is very short, available on Project Gutenberg, and listed on the Modern Library Top 100. But oddly, at every step of the way, I rooted for a dog. I didn’t note many quotations, but liked this one: "There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move."
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I have to say I liked this book. IT really offered a good look into the history of campaigns into Afghanistan. It did drag in some parts but the story itself was still fascinating and it really puts in to prospective how one wages war in Afghanistan. Now according to the history of warfare in this country (according to the author) there was really only one group that had any coherent success in Afghanistan. You see, while invading the land of the Afghans was easy occupying and leaving it is where everyone fucks up. Only one group manged to go in and rule Afghanistan with relative ease and they were the Mongols. The Mongols had a very simple strategy that did not require the whole occupy strategy. Nope these guys simply did genocidal blitz's of the country and went on about there business. Simply a mass slaughter of as many as they thought needed and then they would tell the Afghans were to send the tributes and grains. Oh, and don't make them mad, Genghis Khan is not a nice fellow when mad or even mildly annoyed he will wipe-out whole levels of civilization. So yeah total scorched earth warfare with no regard to any human life seems to work and anything less than that is failure. Many people talked after the 9/11 of Bombing Afghanistan backed to the stone age but they had been living in the stone age since Genghis Khan annihilated there society (of the time), the Afghans have simply never recovered from the repeated sacks and brutal dominations of the Mongols. So that is it as far as I got from strategy. Decent book overall