Clash

Folded in the wrinkles of the highest plateau on Earth, two battle
formations met on opposite sides of a mountain tributary. Armed with
clubs, spiked batons, and stones, they drew their battle lines on either
side of a mountain stream. The two fought in the thin air for six hours.
In the end, blood soaked the valley floor and flowed through the turbulent
waters. Both sides claimed prisoners as the battle closed with the onset
of the bitterly cold mountain night.1 The brutal scene, characteristic of
countless skirmishes throughout the earliest pages of the historical
record, was not a medieval bout or gang violence. Rather, it was a clash
of two of the modern world’s largest nuclear-armed states, each with a
dynamic economic reach extending the world over...

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