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The danger of Great Britain being destroyed by a swift, overwhelming blow has for the time being greatly receded. In its place there is a long, gradually maturing danger, less sudden and less spectacular, but equally deadly. . . . Unless we can establish our ability to feed this island, to import the munitions of all kinds which we need . . . we may fall by the way, and the time needed by the United States to complete her defensive preparations may not be forthcoming.

— Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt, December 8, 1940

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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The danger of Great Britain being destroyed by a swift, overwhelming blow has for the time being greatly receded. In its place there is a long, gradually maturing danger, less sudden and less spectacular, but equally deadly. . . . Unless we can establish our ability to feed this island, to import the munitions of all kinds which we need . . . we may fall by the way, and the time needed by the United States to complete her defensive preparations may not be forthcoming.

— Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt, December 8, 1940