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Lexie M- Embroil

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 * > Name: || Lexie M. ||
 * > Word: || Embroil ||
 * > Source: || The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot, "Preface", Another American Way of War, page 19. ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || To involve in conflict or difficulties. ||
 * > Definition URL: || [] ||
 * > Context Sentences: || "The Marines alone embraced these missions as part of their raison d'etre, and in the decade leading up to World War II they compiled the lessons of their hard-won experience in the Small Wars Manual (Chapter 12). This incisive handbook was all but forgotten, however, by the time America became **embroiled** in Vietnam. General William Westmoreland and the army high command chose to fight a conventional big-unit war--with tragic conquences" (Boot, Max). ||
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