"The American defense community is especially prone to capture by the latest catchphrase, the new-sounding spin on an ancient idea which as jargon separates those who are truly expert from the lesser breeds without the jargon." 
- Colin Gray 
 
"If Thucydides, Sun-tzu, and Clausewitz did not say it, it is probably not worth saying." 
- Colin Gray 

"It is impossible for Westerners to understand the force of the people's will to resist, and to continue to resist. The struggle of the people exceeds the imagination. It has astonished us too."
- Pham Van Dong

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Engineer killed after old bomb he tried to cut open explodes

philstar.com · by John Unson
In this file photo from September 2017, a police officers readies an unexploded bomb found in a construction area near the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
The STAR/Rudy Santos
Engineer killed after old bomb he tried to cut open explodes
John Unson (Philstar.com) - March 4, 2020 - 1:46pm
SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines - An engineer was killed Wednesday when a large World War II-era bomb he tried to cut into pieces using an electric steel cutter exploded.
The body of Vincent Claus Degula was mangled almost beyond recognition when the bomb went off while he was cutting the bomb in a friend's house in Maligo in Polomolok town in South Cotabato.
Police Lt. Col. Marvin Duadua, chief of the Polomolok municipal police, said Degula, a civil engineer, found the bomb in a barangay where he is supervising an infrastructure project.
Usually, police or military explosive ordnance disposal teams are called in to dispose of unexploded ordnance that are sometimes found in construction sites.
Degula instead brought the bomb to the house of a friend named Joseph Namion, a mechanic who had power tools, to open the rusty metal casement of the bomb.
A scared Namion left his house when Degula refused to listen to his warning against using the steel cutter on the bomb.
Duadua said the loud explosion caused panic among villagers in Barangay Maligo.
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