The countries of Central America’s northern triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) are now among the most violent places on earth, deadlier even than most conventional war zones .
Most here take pride in the fact that Pakistan is a nuclear state and believe this has served as a deterrent to conventional war with India.
巴基斯坦的大多数人都对本国是核国家而自豪,并坚信这已变成与印度常规交战中的威慑因素。
This well-written, conventional war history raises the question of whether or not the Americans might have lost the War of Independence, and as the author argues, very nearly did.