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Scorched Earth Doctrine

IN FEBRUARY 1951, New York Times correspondent George Barrett, traveling with an American armored column, stumbled on the ghostly remains of a Korean hamlet that had been bombed out by US aircraft.

By Geoffrey Cain
Los Angeles Review of Books

May 11, 2015

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Misruling Cambodia

If schools are a reflection of society, then they show Cambodia to be a limp and defeated nation. On the first day of class, Cambodian children learn they must bribe their teachers to get good grades, a practice that continues for the 3% of them who make it to college.

By Geoffrey Cain
The Wall Street Journal

May 19, 2011

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