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My name is Jamie and this is episode 289.

Brunem Burr.

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You can't just go to war.

I mean, I guess you can, but it's not a good idea.

War takes work.

It takes planning.

It takes preparation.

War, to put it simply, is a pain in the ass.

You have to really want it.

And that workload only increases with a number of people involved.

This might seem counterintuitive, because you might think that bringing the biggest

army would make the task easier, and I'm sure it does make certain things easier, like

flanking, reinforcements, enveloping, and that sort of thing.

But if you've learned anything from the BHP, it's that war is more than battles.

The battles are the flashpoints, the climaxes, but the war, the war is a grind.

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