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1 Joe Haldeman's The Forever War (1975) has been recently republished by Gollancz in its SF Masterworks series. Also of considerable interest are Haldeman's Forever Peace published in 1997 and Forever Free published in 1999.
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2 For the US assault on Iraq in 1991, see Ramsey Clark, The Fire this Time: US war crimes in the Gulf (New York, Thunder Mouth Press 1992). When there is a danger of US forces suffering even minimal casualties, the use of the troops of less advanced countries is relied on — countries like Britain. There is a great historical irony in British troops becoming America's Gurkhas.