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  • Instead, aides worked the phones late into the night, preparing a home-front strategy.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Instead, aides worked the phones late into the night, preparing a home-front strategy.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • No war-making enterprise can sustain itself without serious information control and the home-front dominance of its inviolate core message: We are good and our enemies are evil.

    Robert Koehler: Defying a Superpower Robert Koehler 2010

  • Instead, aides worked the phones late into the night, preparing a home-front strategy.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • No war-making enterprise can sustain itself without serious information control and the home-front dominance of its inviolate core message: We are good and our enemies are evil.

    Robert Koehler: Defying a Superpower Robert Koehler 2010

  • We have reinforced our home-front defenses and conducted nationwide drills.

    The Lessons of the Second Lebanon War Michael Oren 2011

  • These subtle jabs could be directed at the lower echelon of the Japanese army or navy, where war weariness had set in and inefficiency and graft were rampant, or against home-front officials, cowardly bureaucrats, and black marketeers.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Being based just next door in Kirkland, WA, I think it would sorta be a slap in the face to their locale for Clearwire to expand across the country before they do on the home-front.

    Mapping Clearwire’s Deployment Using Job Listings 2009

  • When was the last war we fought where home-front war weariness was * not* a factor in our decision to take something less than victory?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » If you like the BP spill, you’ll love cyberwar 2010

  • These subtle jabs could be directed at the lower echelon of the Japanese army or navy, where war weariness had set in and inefficiency and graft were rampant, or against home-front officials, cowardly bureaucrats, and black marketeers.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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