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Tocqueville on... "Middle-East troop reductions"
"There is not a single officer in Africa, I think, who denies that to wage war as it is done in this country, a regiment like that of the Zouaves [at the time, indigengous units], for example, would be worth two regiments from France, not so much to fight in bttle but to endure the fatigues and privations that make up the everyday life of a soldier.... I, personally, do not doubt that 30,000 men of this kind could do more than the 60,000 now in Algeria."
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