re: #259 Decatur Deb

Planning is a cheap way of keeping idle minds out of trouble. Somewhere at the bottom of a filing cabinet in the Pentagon J3 is a plan for the occupation of Liechtenstein.

The Office of War Information had started a series of “ethnography at a distance” studies early in the war years. The most famous result was Ruth Benedict’s

, on Japan.

The one based on War Plan Crimson was better. I think it was called “Great White North” by Bob and Doug McKenzie?

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