“Humankind too often cooks up an excuse to start war instead of making peace. Rather than developing better strategies to win wars, we should focus on better recipes to attain peace.”

—  Newton Lee

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015

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