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leadership. Other navy officers who participated in the controversy also saw their careers stalled or ended, but
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protection. This is obviously a game which only a few can play, for if all of us were to be so foolhardy, the alliance, as an effective institution, would cease to exist. Fortunately, this fallacy has found no imitators. And we may hope that it will be short-lived.
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